From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... understanding.
BB p.115,
To Wives
Barriers which have sprung up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth
of sympathetic understanding.
2.
... understanding.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
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 p.115,
To Wives
4.
... understanding all
around.
BB p.137,
To Employers
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 xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
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 p.84,
Into Action
7.
... understanding and
love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
8.
... understanding and
love are the watchwords.
BB p.118,
To Wives
9.
... understanding and
not too seriously affected.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
10.
... understanding and
right, grown-up attitudes, very happy ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
11.
... understanding and
sympathetic family, these vagaries of ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
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 p.56,
Step Five
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 p.139,
To Employers
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 p.160,
A Vision For You
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 p.151,
A Vision For You
16.
... understanding friend.
BB p.74,
Into Action
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 p.119,
Step Twelve
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
reached, little or nothing can ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
19.
Understanding is
the key to right principles ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
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.
20.
... understanding is
the patience mothers and wives ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
21.
Understanding myself
now, I fared forth in ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
22.
... understanding of
His will that we can ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
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.
23.
... understanding of
the ancient words "Freely ye ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
24.
... understanding of
the risk he takes if ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
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.
25.
... understanding of
the Twelve Steps as first ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the
Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
26.
Understanding our
work, he can do this ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Understanding our work, he can
do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
27.
... understanding person,
I might have followed in ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
28.
... understanding person,
such as our wife, best ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
29.
... understanding treatment
of their cases will pay ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
30.
... understanding which
is indescribably wonderful.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
But there exists among us a
fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful.
31.
... understanding which
these people had were irresistible.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
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.
32.
... understanding, you
have perhaps made a friend.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
33.
... understanding your
own reactions, it is possible ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
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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