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1.
... learn.   12&12 p.65, Step Six
The key words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.

2.
... learn.   12&12 p.100, Step Eleven
We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn.

3.
... learn a lesson!"   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
Let him try it by himself for once; maybe he'll learn a lesson!"

4.
... learn and grow by this means, are ...   12&12 p.88, Step Ten
A continuous look at our assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for us.


5.
... learn much from them if you wish, ...   BB p.89, Working With Others   Go to page 89 in the Big Book
Ministers and doctors are competent and you can learn much from them if you wish, but it happens that because of your own drinking experience you can be uniquely useful to other alcoholics.

6.
... learn, often to our consternation, that this ...   12&12 p.73, Step Seven
Then we learn, often to our consternation, that this is only the first milestone on the new road we are walking.

7.
... learn right relations with people who understand ...   12&12 p.117, Step Twelve
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.

8.
... learn something about humility.   12&12 p.72, Step Seven
It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility.

9.
... learn that great corporations have set their ...   12&12 p.180, Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done about alcoholism in their own firms.


10.
... learn that in alcoholics the will is ...   BB p.7, Bill's Story   Go to page 7 in the Big Book
It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.

11.
... learn that the sole authority in A.A. ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.


12.
... learn that we could commence at a ...   BB p.47, We Agnostics   Go to page 47 in the Big Book
So it was comforting to learn that we could commence at a simpler level.


13.
... learn the full meaning of "Love thy ...   BB p.153, A Vision For You   Go to page 153 in the Big Book
You will learn the full meaning of "Love thy neighbor as thyself."


14.
... learn the grim truth about alcoholism.   BB p.144, To Employers   Go to page 144 in the Big Book
Whether your employee likes it or not, he will learn the grim truth about alcoholism.

15.
... learn the very hard lesson that overdependence ...   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.


16.
... learn these things the hard way.   BB p.121, To Wives   Go to page 121 in the Big Book
We had to learn these things the hard way.


17.
... learn this truth: Job or no job ...   BB p.98, Working With Others   Go to page 98 in the Big Book
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.


18.
... learn tolerance, patience and good will toward ...   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.


19.
... learn why his own convictions have not ...   BB p.93, Working With Others   Go to page 93 in the Big Book
But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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