Practice These Principles

1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members' inventories?


2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious preludes such as "just for the sake of discussion," plunge into arguments?


3. Am I gentle with those who rub me the wrong way, or am I abrasive?


4. Do I make competitive AA remarks, such as comparing one group with another or contrasting AA in one place with AA in another?


5. Do I put down some AA activities as if I were superior for not participating in this or that aspect of AA?


6. Am I informed about AA as a whole? Do I support, in every way I can, AA as a whole or just the parts I understand and approve of?


7. Am I as considerate of AA members as I want them to be of me?


8. Do I spout platitudes about love while indulging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility?


9. Do I go to enough AA meetings or read enough AA literature to really keep in touch?


10. Do I share with AA all of me, the bad and the good, accepting as well as giving the help of fellowship?