From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... understood.
BB p.137,
To Employers
2.
... understood as
it is now.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
3.
... understood; better
to forgive than to be ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
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.
4.
... understood by
his friends, and about whom ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends, and
about whom a whole chapter
could be written.
5.
... understood each
other.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
6.
... understood fact
that in God's sight all ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
7.
... understood Him."
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
8.
... understood Him."
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
9.
... understood Him.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in Step
Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
10.
... understood Him.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
11.
... understood Him.
BB p.59,
How It Works
12.
... understood Him.
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being convinced, we were
at Step Three, which is that
we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.
13.
... understood Him:
"God, I offer myself to ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him: "God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.
14.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious
contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for
us and the power to carry
that out."
15.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve
our conscious contact
with God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that
out.
16.
... understood Him,
to do with me as ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
17.
... understood Him,
to give me release, my ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to
drink vanished.
18.
... understood his.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
19.
... understood, is
a petition to God.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
20.
... understood not
at all.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
21.
... understood our
men as we did not!
BB p.106,
To Wives
22.
... understood that
our alcoholic work is an ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
23.
... understood that
the elders, just to nail ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation
for a charter.
24.
... understood the
nature of the alcoholic illness, ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
25.
... understood, there
may be an emotional upset.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
26.
... understood --
to love, than to be loved.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
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.
27.
... understood, to
love than to be loved," ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
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.
28.
... understood what
alcohol could do to a ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
29.
... understood why
we thought we deserved a ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
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