From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMFORTED occurs
4 times
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1.
... comforted and
assured that our own destiny ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be
comforted and
assured that our
own destiny in that
realm will be
secure for so
long as we
try, however
falteringly,
to find and do the will of our
own Creator.
2.
... comforted, in
fact, we could will these ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could will
these things with all our might, but the
needed power wasn't there.
3.
... comforted --
to understand, than to be understood ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Lord,
grant that I may
seek rather to
comfort than to
be
comforted -- to
understand, than to be
understood -- to
love, than
to be
loved.
4.
... comforted, to
understand than to be understood, ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
At these
critical moments, if we
remind
ourselves that "it is
better to
comfort than to be
comforted,
to
understand than to be
understood, to
love than to
be
loved," we will be
following the
intent of
Step Eleven.
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