·        Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict? ·        In these ways we are set in conflict not only with ourselves, but with other people who have instincts, too. ·        In Step Eight, we continued our housecleaning, for we saw that we were not only in conflict with ourselves, but also with people and situations in the world in which we lived.

·        We think that such a view is self-centered and in direct conflict with the new way of living.

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)