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1.
... understand.
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
Finally he
shook his
head saying, "
Something has
happened to
you I don't
understand.
2.
... understand.
BB
To Wives, p.112
Show him that as
alcoholics, the
writers of
the
book understand.
3.
... understand.
BB
To Employers, p.138
4.
... understand!
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
5.
... understand.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
There was
always that
mysterious barrier we
could
neither surmount nor understand.
6.
... understand.
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
In most
cases our
motives
won't be
hard to
see and
understand.
7.
... understand.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
And these
things which they have in
common are not too
hard to
understand.
8.
... understand alcoholics.
BB
Into Action, p.74
9.
... understand alcoholism
as I do now.
BB
To Employers, p.137
10.
... understand and
approve what we are driving ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
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
To Employers, p.141
Seeing your
attempt to
understand and
help, some
men will try
to
take advantage of your
kindness.
12.
... understand and
help them.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
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
Step Eleven, p.96
Those of us who
once felt this
way can
certainly understand and
sympathize.
14.
... understand, and
that you avoid these unnecessary ...
BB
To Wives, p.121
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
To Employers, p.144
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
To Wives, p.104
As
wives of
Alcoholics Anonymous, we would
like you
to
feel that we
understand as
perhaps few can.
17.
... understand, but
what are we going to ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
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
A Vision For You, p.164
Abandon yourself to
God as you
understand God.
19.
Understand he
was once a well-known lawyer ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
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
Step Eleven, p.102
With it we can
broaden and
deepen the
channel between ourselves and
God as we
understand Him.
21.
... understand Him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
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
Step Twelve, p.113
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
Step Five, p.59
We
said, "
Why can't '
God as we
understand Him'
tell us where we are
astray?
24.
... understand him,
when in actuality our true ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
25.
... understand his
new way of life.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
The
wife should
fully understand his
new way of
life.
26.
... understand how
such a seemingly above-board chap ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
You may be at a
loss to
understand how
such a
seemingly above-
board chap could be so
involved.
27.
... understand it."
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
I can't understand it."
28.
... understand it.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
The
man in the
street says, "I don't
understand it.
29.
... understand it,
then a chapter addressed to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
30.
... understand, meets
our simplest daily needs, and ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
31.
... understand --
once a psychic change has occurred, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
32.
... understand our
problem.
BB
Into Action, p.74
We
often find such a
person quick to
see and
understand our
problem.
33.
... understand our
refusal of all personal publicity.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
In the
beginning, the
press could not
understand our
refusal of all
personal publicity.
34.
... understand ourselves
so well after what you ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
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
More About Alcoholism, p.42
I had
never been
able to
understand people who
said that a
problem had them
hopelessly defeated.
36.
... understand than
to be understood; better to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
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
Step Eleven, p.99
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
Step Eleven, p.103
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
To Employers, p.142
He should
understand that
emphatically.
40.
... understand that
he must undergo a change ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
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
To Employers, p.140
Normal drinkers are not so
affected,
nor can they
understand the
aberrations of
the
alcoholic.
42.
... understand the
alcoholic.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
43.
... understand the
difference between sane drinking and ...
12&12
Step Two, p.33
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
To Employers, p.139
Even when you
understand the
malady better, you may
feel this
feeling rising.
45.
... understand the
principles of our program.
12&12
Introduction, p.14
46.
... understand the
problem and will no longer ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
47.
... understand, the
sense of belonging was tremendously ...
12&12
Step Five, p.57
48.
... understand us;
we don't have to be ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
Through it we
begin to
learn right relations with
people who
understand us; we don't have to be
alone any more.
49.
... understand, yet
be unaffected.
BB
Into Action, p.74
50.
... understand you
at once.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
If he is
alcoholic, he
will
understand you at
once.
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