TOPICS – 12 / 5/ 2025 DAILY REFLECTION He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 107 SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS Carl Jung describes “the spiritual awakening —”an illumination of enormous impact and dimension,” Bill W. writes —though Read more…
TOPICS 12/04/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) A.A. Is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those that haven’t been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT. p. 13 WALK IN DRY Read more…
TOPICS 12/03/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) ….we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADTIONS, p. 106 KEEP IT SIMPLE 2) And to practice these principles principles in all our affairs. Third part of step Twelve. This is Read more…
TOPICS 12/02/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps …” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106 POWER IN THE PAUSE 2) As we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions. —TWELVE STEPS AND Read more…
TOPICS 12/01/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening. A.A.’s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.” -TWELVE STEPS Read more…
TOPICS 11/30/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1)At the personal level, anonymity provides protection for all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard often of special importance to newcomers. At the level of press, radio, TV, and films, anonymity stresses the equality in the Fellowship of all members by putting the brake on Read more…
Topics 11/29/2025 1. Daily Reflections ACTIVE GUARDIANS To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition (Tradition 11) is a constant and practical reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A. In it, each member Read more…
TOPICS 11/28/2025 1. Daily Reflections ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than promotion. Read more…
TOPICS 11/27/2028 1. Daily Reflections THE PERILS OF LIMELIGHT In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the point. Here was something rare to the world-a society which said it wishes to Read more…
TOPICS 11/26/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. -TWELVE AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 160 KEEP IT SIMPLE 2) I was never less alone when by myself. —Edward Gibson Many of us get into trouble when we don’t accept that we need others. Read more…