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| 1. | Quote of the Month (by Bill W.) When, therefore, we AAs look to the future, we must always ask ourselves if the spirit which now binds us together in our common cause will always be stronger than those personal ambitions and desires which tend to drive us apart. . .Though the individual AA is under no human coercion, is at almost perfect personal liberty, we have, nevertheless, achieved a wonderful unity on vital essentials. | June 1988 | |
| 2. | From "Modesty One Plank for Good Public Relations (by Bill W.) So we need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without. | July 1988 | |
| 3. | On Cultivating Tolerance (by Dr. Bob) Tolerance expresses itself in a variety of ways: in kindness and consideration toward the man or woman who is just beginning the march along the spiritual path. . .and in sympathy toward those whose religious ideas may seem to be at great variance with our own. | August 1988 | |
| 4. | Inventory and Growth (by AA Comes of Age) In the years ahead we shall, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to confess our faults and to correct them promptly. Our growth as individuals has depended upon this healthy process of trial and error. So will our growth as a fellowship. Let us always remember that any society of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must surely fall into decay if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for the failure to go on growing. Just as each AA must continue to take his moral inventory and act upon it, so must our whole society do ... | September 1988 | |
| 5. | Don't Blow Your Stack! (by Concept XII, Warranty Five) . . .It is evident that the harmony, security, and future effectiveness of AA will depend largely upon our maintenance of a thoroughly nonaggressive and pacific attitude in all our public relations. This is an exacting assignment, because in our drinking days we were prone to anger, hostility, rebellion, and aggression. And even though we are now sober, the old patterns of behavior are to a degree still with us, always threatening to explode on any good excuse. But we know this, and therefore I feel confident that in the conduct of our public affairs we shall always find the grace to exert an effective restraint. | October 1988 | |
| 6. | Availing Yourself of a Sponsor (by Living Sober, page 26) "Not every AA member has had a sponsor. But thousands of us say we would not be alive were it not for the special friendship of one recovered alcoholic in the first months and years of our sobriety. | December 1988 | |
| 7. | The Likeness of Angry Apes (by Aldous Huxley) The great nonhuman world, which exists simultaneously within us and without, is governed by its own divine laws--laws which we are free to obey or disobey. Obedience leads to liberation; disobedience, to a deeper enslavement to misery and evil, to a prolongation of our existence in the likeness of angry apes. Human history is a record of the conflict between two forces--on the one hand, the silly and criminal presumption that makes man ignorant of his glassy essence; on the other, the recognition that, unless he lives in conformity with the greater cosmos, he himself is utterly evil and his world a nightmare. | January 1989 | |
| 8. | Simple In Language, Plain in Meaning (by Dr. Bob) Much has been written, much has been said about the Twelve Steps of AA. These tenets of our faith and practice were not worked out overnight and then presented to our members as an opportunist creed. Born of our early trials and many tribulations, they were and are the result of humble and sincere desire, sought in personal prayer for divine guidance. | February 1989 | |
| 9. | Spell It Yourself (by Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.) In my opinion, not only as a believer in a living God but as a psychiatrist, there is neither significance nor dignity for man in a materialistic, Godless world. A patient must always come to grips with his own deepest personal philosophy of life, its ultimate meaning and significance for himself, before he is whole. What that philosophy is, be he Jew, Gentile or what-have-you, is none of my business. But find it for himself he must. I have had patients of all faiths, as AA has members of all faiths. I must not determine his goal, but I must help him find his own goal, however he spells it. | March 1989 | |
| 10. | More Crank Stuff (by Dr. E. M. Jellinek) In 1939 I was engaged in a critical review of the alcoholism literature. Among my readings were some true gems and an overwhelming number of papers ranging from mediocre to frankly crank productions. | April 1989 | |
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