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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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UNDERSTAND   occurs   50 times 30 in BB  •  20 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... understand.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
Finally he shook his head saying, "Something has happened to you I don't understand.


2.
  ... understand.  BB To Wives, p.112
Show him that as alcoholics, the writers of the book understand.


3.
  ... understand.  BB To Employers, p.138
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.


4.
  ... understand!  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Unhappy drinkers who read this page will understand!


5.
  ... understand.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
There was always that mysterious barrier we could neither surmount nor understand.


6.
  ... understand.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.


7.
  ... understand.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand.


8.
  ... understand alcoholics.  BB Into Action, p.74
Of course, we sometimes encounter people who do not understand alcoholics.


9.
  ... understand alcoholism as I do now.  BB To Employers, p.137
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.


10.
  ... understand and approve what we are driving ...  BB Into Action, p.74
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve what we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.


11.
  ... understand and help, some men will try ...  BB To Employers, p.141
Seeing your attempt to understand and help, some men will try to take advantage of your kindness.


12.
  ... understand and help them.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.


13.
  ... understand and sympathize.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
Those of us who once felt this way can certainly understand and sympathize.


14.
  ... understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary ...  BB To Wives, p.121
That is why we are anxious that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary difficulties.(*)


15.
  ... understand and will not be upset by ...  BB To Employers, p.144
If he feels free to discuss his problems with you, if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.


16.
  ... understand as perhaps few can.  BB To Wives, p.104
As wives of Alcoholics Anonymous, we would like you to feel that we understand as perhaps few can.


17.
  ... understand, but what are we going to ...  BB Into Action, p.81
In fairness we must say that she may understand, but what are we going to do about a thing like that?


18.
  ... understand God.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God.


19.
  Understand he was once a well-known lawyer ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
Understand he was once a well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)


20.
  ... understand Him.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
With it we can broaden and deepen the channel between ourselves and God as we understand Him.


21.
  ... understand Him.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.


22.
  ... understand Him, handle them as well and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Can we now, with the help of God as we understand Him, handle them as well and as bravely as our nonalcoholic friends often do?


23.
  ... understand Him' tell us where we are ...  12&12 Step Five, p.59
We said, "Why can't 'God as we understand Him' tell us where we are astray?


24.
  ... understand him, when in actuality our true ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.


25.
  ... understand his new way of life.  BB Working With Others, p.99
The wife should fully understand his new way of life.


26.
  ... understand how such a seemingly above-board chap ...  BB To Employers, p.140
You may be at a loss to understand how such a seemingly above-board chap could be so involved.


27.
  ... understand it."  BB A Vision For You, p.157
I can't understand it."


28.
  ... understand it.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
The man in the street says, "I don't understand it.


29.
  ... understand it, then a chapter addressed to ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
In the following chapter, there appears an explanation of alcoholism, as we understand it, then a chapter addressed to the agnostic.


30.
  ... understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.


31.
  ... understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.


32.
  ... understand our problem.  BB Into Action, p.74
We often find such a person quick to see and understand our problem.


33.
  ... understand our refusal of all personal publicity.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity.


34.
  ... understand ourselves so well after what you ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.


35.
  ... understand people who said that a problem ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
I had never been able to understand people who said that a problem had them hopelessly defeated.


36.
  ... understand than to be understood; better to ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
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.


37.
  ... understand, than to be understood -- to love, ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
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.


38.
  ... understand than to be understood, to love ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
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.


39.
  ... understand that emphatically.  BB To Employers, p.142
He should understand that emphatically.


40.
  ... understand that he must undergo a change ...  BB To Employers, p.143
Though you are providing him with the best possible medical attention, he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.


41.
  ... understand the aberrations of the alcoholic.  BB To Employers, p.140
Normal drinkers are not so affected, nor can they understand the aberrations of the alcoholic.


42.
  ... understand the alcoholic.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We think this account of our experiences will help everyone to better understand the alcoholic.


43.
  ... understand the difference between sane drinking and ...  12&12 Step Two, p.33
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.


44.
  ... understand the malady better, you may feel ...  BB To Employers, p.139
Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.


45.
  ... understand the principles of our program.  12&12 Introduction, p.14
We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our program.


46.
  ... understand the problem and will no longer ...  BB To Employers, p.148
But at least he will understand the problem and will no longer be misled by ordinary promises.


47.
  ... understand, the sense of belonging was tremendously ...  12&12 Step Five, p.57
When we reached A.A., and for the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the sense of belonging was tremendously exciting.


48.
  ... understand us; we don't have to be ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.


49.
  ... understand, yet be unaffected.  BB Into Action, p.74
Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected.


50.
  ... understand you at once.  BB Working With Others, p.92
If he is alcoholic, he will understand you at once.


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