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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LIKELY occurs
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1.
... likely to
be aroused.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
If the
pursuit of
wealth
tramples upon people who
happen to be in the way, then
anger,
jealousy, and
revenge are
likely to be
aroused.
2.
... likely to
be far more specific than ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
While the
comment or
advice of others may be by no
means infallible, it is
likely to be far more
specific than any
direct guidance we may
receive
while we are still so
inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a
Power greater than
ourselves.
3.
... likely to
be his closest A.A. friend.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
At
first that "somebody" is
likely to be his
closest A.A. friend.
4.
... likely to
be the husband.
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
(*)
Written in
1939, when
there were few
women in
A.A.,
this
chapter assumes
that the
alcoholic in the
home is
likely to be the
husband.
5.
... likely to
drink again, and anything is ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
He will be
less likely to
drink again, and anything is
preferable to that.
6.
... likely to
entertain is one of resentment ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
Another
feeling we are very
likely to
entertain is one of
resentment that
love and
loyalty could not
cure our
husbands of
alcoholism.
7.
... likely to
find him reading the book ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
Sooner or
later, you are
likely to find him
reading
the book once more.
8.
... likely to
follow your suggestions.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
He will be more
likely to
follow your
suggestions.
9.
... likely to,
for we understand ourselves so ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We
admit we have some of these
symptoms, but we have not
gone to the
extremes you
fellows did, nor are we
likely
to, for we
understand ourselves so well after
what you have told us that such things cannot
happen again.
10.
... likely to
get far in any direction ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not
likely to get far in any
direction if he
fails to
show unselfishness and
love under his
own roof.
11.
... likely to
have fixed ideas about the ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
The
alcoholic, his
wife,
his
children, his "in-
laws", each one is
likely to have
fixed ideas about the
family's
attitude towards himself or herself.
12.
... likely to
have varied traits.
BB p.61,
How It Works
But, as with most
humans, he is more
likely to have
varied traits.
13.
... likely to
receive from Step Five?
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
What are we
likely to
receive from
Step Five?
14.
... likely to
reveal the very defects the ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
15.
... likely to
rise up under later pressures ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They
need to be as
sure as
possible that no
deep-
lying emotional handicap in either will be
likely to
rise up under
later pressures to
cripple them.
16.
... likely to
say you rushed him.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he has
trouble later,
he is
likely to say you
rushed him.
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