FOCUSING AND LISTENING: There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. – Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page…
KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOAT: The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing... – THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, page 240…
AVOIDING CONTROVERSY: All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of…
LIVE AND LET LIVE: Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in…