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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
UNDERSTANDING occurs
33 times
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1.
... 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
Use your
energies to
promote a
better understanding all around.
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
Our
next function is to
grow in
understanding and
effectiveness.
7.
... understanding and
love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
All
members of the
family
should
meet upon the
common
ground of
tolerance,
understanding and
love.
8.
... understanding and
love are the watchwords.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Patience,
tolerance,
understanding and
love are the
watchwords.
9.
... understanding and
not too seriously affected.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
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 p.119,
Step Twelve
With
clear understanding and
right,
grown-up
attitudes, very
happy results do
follow.
11.
... understanding and
sympathetic family, these vagaries of ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
12.
... understanding and
trustworthy person.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
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
Some of us
sought out
sordid places,
hoping to find
understanding companionship and
approval.
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
Until such an
understanding is
reached,
little or
nothing can be
accomplished.
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
Passing all
understanding
is the
patience mothers
and
wives have had with
alcoholics.
21.
Understanding myself
now, I fared forth in ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
Understanding myself now, I
fared forth in
high hope.
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
We have
gained some
understanding of the
ancient words "
Freely ye have
received,
freely give."
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
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
And but for the
intervention of an
understanding person, I might have
followed in their
footsteps.
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
Your
understanding treatment of their
cases
will
pay dividends.
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
If your
talk has been
sane,
quiet and
full of
human understanding, you have
perhaps made a
friend.
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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