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