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UNDERSTANDING occurs
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1.
... understanding.
BB
To Wives, p.115
2.
... understanding.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
3.
... understanding all
around.
BB
To Wives, p.115
Use your
energies to
promote a
better understanding all
around.
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
Our
next function is to
grow in
understanding and
effectiveness.
7.
... understanding and
love.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
All
members of the
family
should
meet upon the
common ground of
tolerance,
understanding and
love.
8.
... understanding and
love are the watchwords.
BB
To Wives, p.118
Patience,
tolerance,
understanding and
love are the
watchwords.
9.
... understanding and
not too seriously affected.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
And
even if they
failed us, we
could be
understanding and not too
seriously affected.
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
12.
... understanding and
trustworthy person.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
13.
... understanding as
to what really ails the ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
14.
... understanding companionship
among women who knew her ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
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
21.
... understanding is
the patience mothers and wives ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
Passing all
understanding is
the
patience mothers and
wives have had with
alcoholics.
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
Daily petitions for
understanding of
God's
will and
grace to
carry it
out.
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
We have
gained some
understanding of the
ancient words "
Freely ye have
received,
freely give."
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
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
And but for the
intervention of an
understanding person, I might have
followed in their
footsteps.
30.
... understanding person,
such as our wife, best ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
31.
... understanding treatment
of their cases will pay ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
Your
understanding treatment of their
cases will pay dividends.
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
34.
... understanding, you
have perhaps made a friend.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
If your
talk has been
sane,
quiet and
full of
human understanding, you have
perhaps made a
friend.
35.
... understanding your
own reactions, it is possible ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
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