TOPICS – 10 / 27 / 2026
1) GLOBAL SHARING
The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151
2) CONTEMPT PRIOR TO INVESTIGATION
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p. 568
3) REVEALING OUR TRUTH
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” — Adrienne Rich
Most of us are fundamentally honest people who would not deliberately tell an untruth. But there are circumstances when we may fear to say all that we need to.
4) CONCEPT OF GOD
The word God still aroused a certain antipathy. When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified. I didn’t like the idea . . . My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, ‘Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?