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... understanding.
BB
To Wives, p.115
Barriers which have sprung
up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of
sympathetic understanding.
2.
... understanding.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression,
or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
3.
... understanding all
around.
BB
To Wives, p.115
4.
... understanding all
around.
BB
To Employers, p.137
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation
which might be helped by better understanding all around.
5.
... understanding and
accepting what we have to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxvi-xxvii
More often than not, it is imperative that a man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as
he has then a better chance
of understanding and accepting what we have to offer.
6.
... understanding and
effectiveness.
BB
Into Action, p.84
7.
... understanding and
love.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
8.
... understanding and
love are the watchwords.
BB
To Wives, p.118
9.
... understanding and
not too seriously affected.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
10.
... understanding and
right, grown-up attitudes, very happy ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
11.
... understanding and
sympathetic family, these vagaries of ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic
family, these vagaries of
dad's spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.
12.
... understanding and
trustworthy person.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a
discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy
person.
13.
... understanding as
to what really ails the ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what
part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.
14.
... understanding companionship
among women who knew her ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had
happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
15.
... understanding companionship
and approval.
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
16.
... understanding friend.
BB
Into Action, p.74
If we cannot or would rather not do this, we search our acquaintance
for a close-mouthed, understanding friend.
17.
... understanding how
much he himself did to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children,
nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what
he can and to accept what he can't.
18.
Understanding is
key to right attitudes, right ...
12&12
Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
19.
... understanding is
reached, little or nothing can ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
20.
Understanding is
the key to right principles ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
21.
... understanding is
the patience mothers and wives ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
22.
Understanding myself
now, I fared forth in ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
23.
... understanding of
God's will and grace to ...
12&12
Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
24.
... understanding of
His will that we can ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day,
and that we be given the grace
by which we may carry it out.
25.
... understanding of
the ancient words "Freely ye ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
26.
... understanding of
the risk he takes if ...
BB
To Wives, p.112
You think he ought to know the subject better, as everyone should
have a clear understanding of
the risk he takes if he drinks too much.
27.
... understanding of
the Twelve Steps as first ...
12&12
Foreword, p.17
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the
Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
28.
Understanding our
work, he can do this ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work, he can
do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
29.
... understanding person,
I might have followed in ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
30.
... understanding person,
such as our wife, best ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
31.
... understanding treatment
of their cases will pay ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
32.
... understanding which
is indescribably wonderful.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
But there exists among us a
fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful.
33.
... understanding which
these people had were irresistible.
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
The very practical approach to his problems,
the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the
genuine democracy, the
uncanny understanding which
these people had were irresistible.
34.
... understanding, you
have perhaps made a friend.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
35.
... understanding your
own reactions, it is possible ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible
for you to become quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned,
are not always so.
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