From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or, worse still, laughter.
2.
... resistance so
that which is inside him ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that which
is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
3.
... resistance to
what our friend says.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
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