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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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TEMPTATION   occurs   11 times 5 in BB  •  6 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... temptation.  BB Into Action, p.85
We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation.


2.
  ... temptation.  BB To Wives, p.120
We never, never try to arrange a man's life so as to shield him from temptation.


3.
  ... temptation.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
We also fall into another similar temptation.


4.
  ... temptation here is to imagine that we ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.


5.
  ... temptation is doomed to failure.  BB Working With Others, p.101
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.


6.
  ... temptation is to become rather possessive of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Here the temptation is to become rather possessive of these newcomers.


7.
  ... temptation the thought of drink has never ...  BB We Agnostics, p.57
Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.


8.
  ... temptation to drink.  BB To Employers, pp.146-147
He will appreciate knowing you are not bothering your head about him, that you are not suspicious nor are you trying to run his life so he will be shielded from temptation to drink.


9.
  ... temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.


10.
  ... temptation to skip the more humiliating and ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
The temptation to skip the more humiliating and dreaded meetings that still remain may be great.


11.
  ... temptation will be to ask for specific ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped.


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