"learned" in the Big Book

If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics.

I rather appreciated your ideas about the subtle insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it could not happen to me after what I had learned.

Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all.

Alco_9781893007161_6p_01_r6.qxd 8/13/07 10:55 AM Page 44 I n the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism.

We have learned that whatever the human frailties of various faiths may be, those faiths have given purpose and direction to millions.

If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.

But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.

Tell him how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick.

He found himself surprisingly well received, and learned that many knew of his drinking.