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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROSPECT occurs
19 times
11 in BB • 8 in 12&12
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1.
He
need not, and
often should
not
show it to his
alcoholic prospect.
2.
They
explained their
need
and
inquired if she had a
first class alcoholic prospect.
3.
"So I
hopped the
subway to
Towns Hospital, where I
asked Dr.
Silkworth if he had a
prospect.
4.
The
money motive compromises him and
everything he
says and does
for his
prospect.
5.
Here was a
prospect all
right but, by the
description,
none too
promising.
6.
Do not be
discouraged if your
prospect does not
respond at
once.
7.
When you
discover a
prospect
for
Alcoholics Anonymous,
find out all you can about him.
8.
When your
prospect has
made such reparation as he can to
his
family, and has
thoroughly explained to
them the
new principles by
which he is
living, he should
proceed to
put those principles into
action at
home.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
And with
genuine alarm at
the
prospect of
work, we
stay lazy.
15.
That the
man who is
making the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that there are
no fees to
pay,
no
axes to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured --
these are the
conditions we have
found most
effective.
16.
Remind the
prospect that his
recovery is not
dependent upon people.
17.
18.
No, the
average alcoholic,
self-
centered in the
extreme,
doesn't
care for this
prospect
--
unless he has to do these
things in
order to
stay alive himself.
19.
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