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... understand.
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
2.
... understand.
BB
To Wives, p.112
3.
... understand.
BB
To Employers, p.138
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw
that I had failed to help my
banker friend understand.
4.
... understand!
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
5.
... understand.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
6.
... understand.
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
7.
... understand.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
8.
... understand alcoholics.
BB
Into Action, p.74
9.
... understand alcoholism
as I do now.
BB
To Employers, p.137
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
24.
... understand him,
when in actuality our true ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
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
Working With Others, p.99
26.
... understand how
such a seemingly above-board chap ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
27.
... understand it."
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
I can't understand it."
28.
... understand it.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
29.
... understand it,
then a chapter addressed to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
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
Step Three, p.36
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
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
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
Into Action, p.74
33.
... understand our
refusal of all personal publicity.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
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
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
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
45.
... understand the
principles of our program.
12&12
Introduction, p.14
We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these
pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our
program.
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
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.
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
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