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Quote March 30 2014

“It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions read out loud, the experiences of the early AA meetings gave me the first notion that real people -- drunks like me -- started this program.”

“Out of the Hat,” New York, New York, February 1990 AA Grapevine
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Quote March 30, 2017

“It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions read out loud, the experiences of the early AA meetings gave me the first notion that real people -- drunks like me -- started this program.”

New York, New York, February 1990 “Out of the Hat” AA Grapevine
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November 5, 2013

“One of the truly great gifts in this Fellowship of mutually concerned people is the gift of the art of listening ... But our need to listen goes beyond meetings and talks with friends ... We need Step Eleven and our greater conscious contact with the Divine Listener. Then will our serenity emerge; then will our help to others have quality.”

Anonymous, May 1960 “Where the Words Come From,” Spiritual Awakenings
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Grapevine Daily Quote September 16, 2019

“Spirituality for me is not a question of feeling good (though feeling good is a feeling I like a whole lot). Instead it is a matter of finding from prayer and meditation, from other people, from meetings -- in short, from all the ‘tools of recovery’ -- the power to do what is good, what is healthy, what brings joy and healing to myself and others.”

“The Power to Carry That Out,” West Henrietta, New York, September 1990, Spiritual Awakenings
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Quote September 16, 2014

“Spirituality for me is not a question of feeling good (though feeling good is a feeling I like a whole lot). Instead it is a matter of finding from prayer and meditation, from other people, from meetings -- in short, from all the ‘tools of recovery’ -- the power to do what is good, what is healthy, what brings joy and healing to myself and others.”

West Henrietta, New York, September 1990“The Power to Carry That Out,” Spiritual Awakenings

Grapevine Daily Quote September 16, 2017

“Spirituality for me is not a question of feeling good (though feeling good is a feeling I like a whole lot). Instead it is a matter of finding from prayer and meditation, from other people, from meetings -- in short, from all the ‘tools of recovery’ -- the power to do what is good, what is healthy, what brings joy and healing to myself and others.”

West Henrietta, N.Y., September 1990 “The Power to Carry That Out,” Spiritual Awakenings
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Grapevine Daily Quote September 16, 2017

“Spirituality for me is not a question of feeling good (though feeling good is a feeling I like a whole lot). Instead it is a matter of finding from prayer and meditation, from other people, from meetings -- in short, from all the ‘tools of recovery’ -- the power to do what is good, what is healthy, what brings joy and healing to myself and others.”

West Henrietta, N.Y., September 1990 “The Power to Carry That Out,” Spiritual Awakenings
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Round and Around We Go. . .

June 1960
All over the globe, AA takes root, struggles, then thrives

“Would a friend of Bill W. please pick up a white courtesy phone.”

june 2026 | Young & Sober
By: Cameron D. | Las Vegas, Nevada
A super busy flight attendant has an important meeting he definitely hadn’t expected

I Should Have Known

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By: Jenn D. | Houston, Texas
Fighting to become the person her Higher Power wanted her to be

Two Lives, One Lifetime

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By: Susan K. | Great Meadows., N.J.
One of the great benefits of sobriety? Being able to look yourself in the eye

Journey To Recovery

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By: Nicki C. | Kansas City, Mo.
She called the AA hotline one desperate night, praying for someone to pick up

Dear Grapevine

February 2026 | Getting Through Tough Times

That Wonderful Sense of Belonging

April 2025 | Making Amends
By: Scotty K. | New Orleans, Louisiana
A motorcycle trip was what he loved most in life. But why could he not enjoy it? Ninth Step to the rescue

Dear Grapevine

December 2024 | Remote Communities and Sober Holidays

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An Impressive Approach

August 1990
By: Vic M. | St. Augustine, Florida

No Loopholes Left

July 1990
By: Peter O. | Tema
WHAT HAPPENED

Neglected Concepts

June 1987
By: J. B. | Southampton, Pennsylvania

Emotional Involvement

November 1984
By: F. C.
Sometimes Cupid's darts hit the wrong mark - From the January 1962 Grapevine

The Five Gifts of Anonymity

September 1984
By: R. G. | Thousand Oaks, California

Getting Honest With Ourselves

January 1981
By: P. M. | Riverside, Illinois

12th Tradition

November 1980
By: B. L
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities - From the September 1971 Grapvine

The Gift of Surrender

April 1978
By: D. N. | Newark, Delaware

The Amends I Most Dreaded to Make

August 1977
By: D. S. | Desert Hot Springs, California
Some things can never be undone, but there is a spirit that heals old wounds

My Name Is Frank. . .

October 1975
By: Frank B. | Norwood, Massachusetts
And today I am an alcoholic

Problem of 'compulsion'

September 1968
Supreme Court Says No to Drunk-Arrest Ban

Choose the Nobler Belief

October 1966
By: Robert K. Greenleaf
Six finite choices depend on our relationship with the infinite - Seven choices for mature living: The final article in a series of six

My Name Is Jackie

May 1966
By: J. B. | Farmington, Maine
An alcoholic's own story

Make Friends with Your Conscience

February 1963
By: O. Hobart Mowrer
Does alcohol release your "real" personality? "Tommy rot," says a voice from the other side of the swinging doors. And the too severe conscience is largely myth.

Emotional Involvement

January 1962
By: F. C. | New York City, New York
Sometimes Cupid's darts hit the wrong mark

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