TOPICS 4/28/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Few people will sincerely try to practice the AA program unless they have “hit bottom,” for practicing A.A.’s Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. The average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, Read more…
TOPICS 4/26/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 WALK Read more…
TOPICS 4/25/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist his fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension – freedom under God as we Read more…
ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension—freedom under God as we understand Him. — Read more…
TOPICS 4/24/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us… We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others… We still mainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or Read more…
TOPICS 4/23/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) It would be a product of false pride to claim that AA is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 89 2) Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intensive work Read more…
TOPICS 4/22/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush , will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use Read more…
TOPICS 4/17/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) All these feelings, generate fear, a soul- sickness in its own right. -12 AND 12, p. 49 AS BILL SEES IT, p. 108 2) In 1941, a news clipping was called to our attention by a New York member. In an obituary notice from a Read more…
TOPICS 4/16/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66 AS BILL SEES IT, p. Read more…
TOPICS 4/15/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) … harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5 BIG BOOK QUOTE 2) On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Read more…