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Welcome to AA
If the answer is YES to either question then:
Notices AA's Singleness of purpose“Sobriety—freedom from alcohol—through the teaching and practice of the Twelve Steps,is the sole purpose of an A.A. group,”. “Groups have repeatedly tried other activities, and they have always failed.It has also been learned that there is no possible way to make nonalcoholics into A.A. members.We have to confine our membership to alcoholics, and we have to confine our A.A. groups to a single purpose.If we don’t stick to these principles, we shall almost certainly collapse. And if we collapse, we cannot help anyone.”Bill Wilson Feb 1958 issue of the A.A. GrapevineJust a Thought
"As excuse-makers and rationalizers, we drunks are champions. It is the business of the psychiatrist to get behind our excuses and to find the deeper causes for our conduct. Though uninstructed in psychiatry, we can, after a little time in A.A., see that our motives have not been what we thought they were and that we have been motivated by forces unknown to us. Therefore we ought to look with the deepest respect, interest, and profit upon the findings of psychiatry, remembering that up to now the psychiatrists have been far more tolerant of us than we have been of them. – Bill W." © 2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 236 |