Anonymity--

I believe that anonymity--the spiritual substance of it--is more important than ever today. The spiritual substance of anonymity--self-sacrifice--is the cement that binds us, that allows us to stay alive and well and growing. Most of us arrived in AA as egomaniacs, power drivers, manipulators, glory seekers, and islands unto ourselves, self-obsessed and possessed. Here we learn that each of us is only a small part of a great whole; we learn that our unity is the most cherished quality that we possess; we learn that our lives and the lives of all those to come depend on this unity; and we learn that our AA heart would cease to beat without that unity and that therefore our world arteries would be unable to carry the life-giving grace of God--and his great gift to us would be aimlessly spent.