TRUE TOLERANCE: The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking. – Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 139 – I first heard the short form of…
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EQUAL RIGHTS: At one time or another most A.A. groups go on rulemaking benders... After a time fear and intolerance subside. We do not wish to deny anyone his chance…
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NO MAUDLIN GUILT: Day by day, we try to move a little toward God’s perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt... – AS BILL SEES IT, page…
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TURNING NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE: Our spiritual and emotional growth in A.A. does not depend so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and setbacks. If you will bear…
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PROGRESSIVE GRATITUDE: Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward. – AS BILL SEES IT, page 29 – I am very grateful that my Higher Power has given me a second…
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