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Barriers which have sprung
up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of
sympathetic understanding.
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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.
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We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation
which might be helped by better understanding all around.
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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.
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In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic
family, these vagaries of
dad's spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we cannot or would rather not do this, we search our acquaintance
for a close-mouthed, understanding friend.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the
Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
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Understanding our work, he can
do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
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We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
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But there exists among us a
fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful.
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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.
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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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