TOPICS 1/26/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this prospect – unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24
GRAPEVINE DAILY QUOTE
2) The leap of faith must be taken again and again over greater and greater distances.”
MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM BB -PG. 37
3) In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. Even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient, in the light of what always happened.
TWELVE AND TWELVE PG. 69
4) At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can. Delay is dangerous, and rebellion may be fatal.