TOPICS 3/3/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us!
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 299
2) We now fully realize that 100 per cent personal anonymity before the public is just as vital to the life of A.A. as 100 per cent sobriety is to the life of each and every member. This is not the council of fear; it is the prudent voice of long experience.
BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 568
3) There is a principal which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments in which cannot fail to keep a man and everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
12 and 12, p. 40
4) It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was the most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God‘s intention for us.