From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... happens?
BB p.61,
How It Works
What usually happens?
2.
... happens.
BB p.78,
Into Action
3.
... happens, both
in the bodily and mental ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
4.
... happens in
God's world by mistake.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
5.
... happens, our
great natural assets, the instincts, ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When that happens, our great
natural assets, the instincts, have turned
into physical and mental
liabilities.
6.
... happens that
because of your own drinking ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Ministers and doctors
are competent and you can learn much from them if you wish, but it happens that because of your own drinking experience you
can be uniquely useful
to other alcoholics.
7.
... happens, they
can be invited to join ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
When this happens, they can be invited to join in morning meditation and
then they can take part in the
daily discussion without rancor or bias.
8.
... happens to
be.
BB p.144,
To Employers
We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his
condition, whatever
that happens to be.
9.
... happens to
be great, we will more ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
10.
... happens to
be one of A.A.'s greatest ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
11.
... happens to
the family and home?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about
making amends that we
don't care what happens to the
family and home?
12.
... happens when
we try to dominate the ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we try to dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of
minute directions for
just how their lives should
be lived from hour to hour?
13.
... happens when
we wallow in depression, self-pity ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we wallow
in depression, self-pity oozing from every pore, and inflict that upon those about us?
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