From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... understand.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
2.
... understand.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
3.
... understand.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
4.
... understand.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
5.
... understand.
BB p.112,
To Wives
6.
... understand.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.
7.
... understand!
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
8.
... understand alcoholics.
BB p.74,
Into Action
9.
... understand alcoholism
as I do now.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand
alcoholism as I do now.
10.
... understand and
approve what we are driving ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully
understand and approve what
we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.
11.
... understand and
help, some men will try ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
12.
... understand and
help them.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
With those we dislike we
can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.
13.
... understand and
sympathize.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
14.
... understand, and
that you avoid these unnecessary ...
BB p.121,
To Wives
That is why we are anxious
that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary
difficulties.(*)
15.
... understand and
will not be upset by ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
If he feels free to discuss his problems with
you, if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.
16.
... understand as
perhaps few can.
BB p.104,
To Wives
17.
... understand, but
what are we going to ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
In fairness we must say that she may understand, but
what are we going to do about a thing like that?
18.
... understand God.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
19.
Understand he
was once a well-known lawyer ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Understand he was once a well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)
20.
... understand Him.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
21.
... understand Him.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.
22.
... understand Him,
handle them as well and ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Can we now, with the help of God as we understand Him, handle them as well and as bravely as our nonalcoholic friends
often do?
23.
... understand Him'
tell us where we are ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
24.
... understand him,
when in actuality our true ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were
helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.
25.
... understand his
new way of life.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
26.
... understand how
such a seemingly above-board chap ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
27.
... understand it.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
28.
... understand it."
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
I can't understand it."
29.
... understand it,
then a chapter addressed to ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
In the following chapter, there appears an
explanation of alcoholism, as we understand it, then a chapter addressed to the agnostic.
30.
... understand, meets
our simplest daily needs, and ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.
31.
... understand --
once a psychic change has occurred, ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand --
once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of
ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
32.
... understand our
problem.
BB p.74,
Into Action
33.
... understand our
refusal of all personal publicity.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
34.
... understand ourselves
so well after what you ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that
such things cannot happen again.
35.
... understand people
who said that a problem ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
36.
... understand than
to be understood; better to ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
He thought it better to
give comfort than to receive it; better to understand than to be understood; better to forgive than to be forgiven.
37.
... understand, than
to be understood -- to love, ...
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.
38.
... understand than
to be understood, to love ...
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.
39.
... understand that
emphatically.
BB p.142,
To Employers
He should understand that emphatically.
40.
... understand that
he must undergo a change ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
Though you are providing him with the best
possible medical attention, he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.
41.
... understand the
aberrations of the alcoholic.
BB p.140,
To Employers
42.
... understand the
alcoholic.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
43.
... understand the
difference between sane drinking and ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which
does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.
44.
... understand the
malady better, you may feel ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
45.
... understand the
problem and will no longer ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
46.
... understand, the
sense of belonging was tremendously ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we reached A.A., and for
the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the sense of belonging was tremendously exciting.
47.
... understand us;
we don't have to be ...
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.
48.
... understand, yet
be unaffected.
BB p.74,
Into Action
49.
... understand you
at once.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
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