For you alone
Page 97
"The idea of a spiritual awakening takes many different forms in the different personalities that we find in the fellowship."
Basic Text, p. 49
CHARACTER BUILDING
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion. . . .
— TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 44
Attraction
Page 96
"Our public image consists of what we have to offer: a successful, proven way of maintaining a drug-free lifestyle."
Basic Text, p. 75
LOOKING WITHIN
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
— TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42
Love and addiction
Page 95
"Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones."
Basic Text, p. 7
NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE
On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two. . . . A newcomer appeared at one of these groups. . . . He soon proved that his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to get well. . . . [He said], “Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want me among you.”
— TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 141-42
Insides and outsides
Page 93
"Our real value is in being ourselves."
Basic Text, p. 105
OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE
“. . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best.”
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 101
God-centeredness
Page 92
"Gradually as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope."
Basic Text, p. 95