TOPICS 2/19/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the “high bottoms, ” the women said they were different; The Skid-Rower said he was different … so did the artists and the professional people, the rich, the poor, the religious, the agnostic, the Indians and the Eskimos, the veterans, and the prisoners. Nowadays all of these, and legions more, soberly talk about how very much alike all of us alcoholics are when we admit that the chips are finally down.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 24
MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM PG.33
2) If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking button notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
Pocket Sponsor – Book – Quote
3) Half measures do not avail us half, they avail us nothing.
Am I willing to go to any length?
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1960, “AA Tomorrow”, The Language of the Heart
THE DOCTORS OPINION – BB pg XXVii
4) The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight. In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a Power greater than themselves, if they are to recreate their lives.