A great trap I have fallen into is to use spiritual growth to create a little universe, separate from the real universe, containing just me and lots of marshmallow thoughts about God and love and suchlike.
Spiritual growth, raising my consciousness, seeing through the follies and vanities of my thinking, and other such laudable pursuits, instead of being the means by which I am emptied out in order for God to achieve His will through my hearty, diligent, painstaking work on His behalf, become the main purpose and objective of my life.
Spiritual self-centeredness is as dangerous to me as greed, chambering, intemperance, gluttony, wantonness, malice, or other faults.
Self needs to be curetted out of me, leaving just a space for God to work.
The measure of a spiritual awakening is not good sharing in meetings but the work I'm doing in carrying the message of AA and Al-Anon and concerted constructive action in the other departments of my life.