"understanding" in the Big Book

Understanding myself now, I fared forth in high hope.

But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful.

Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished.

We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.

If we cannot or would rather not do this, we search our acquaintance for a close-mouthed, understanding friend.

Passing all understanding is the patience mothers and wives have had with alcoholics.

Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness.

If your talk has been sane, quiet and full of human understanding, you have perhaps made a friend.

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.

Barriers which have sprung up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of sympathetic understanding.

Use your energies to promote a better understanding all around.

Patience, tolerance, understanding and love are the watchwords.

All members of the family should meet upon the common ground of tolerance, understanding and love.

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.

In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic family, these vagaries of dad’s spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.

And but for the intervention of an understanding person, I might have followed in their footsteps.

We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation which might be helped by better understanding all around.

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.

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.

Your understanding treatment of their cases will pay dividends.

Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to find understanding companionship and approval.

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.

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.

Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.