Personal Growth & Meditation

Devoid of all motives to deceive Is there a difference between being honest and practicing rigorous honesty? And if not, why add the word rigorous, unless […]

“The AA Program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. AA has combined them into a program best suited to the alcoholics mind and which will […]

Having an Open Mind in Recovery If you’ve ever flipped to the appendix in the book Alcoholics Anonymous then you may have come across this quote […]

A Great Reality Deep Within, By Bob S. Of course, the oft-heard statement inferring that we are made “in the image of God,” has nothing to […]

Abandon Our Failed Ego Driven Insanity I don’t believe that any two people in the A.A. program have settled into a concept of a higher power […]

Those Tormenting Ghosts of Yesterday Over the years, I have watched the differing patterns of A.A. members and the degree of the importance of thoroughness applied […]

Desperation Outweighed the Denial Coming from a life that was anything but normal to the life I live today was difficult to imagine at that point […]

What is the meaning of the word defect? What is the meaning of the word shortcoming? Those are two words that we hear often when we […]

From Dr. Bob, July, 1944 During nine years in AA, I have observed that those who follow the Alcoholics Anonymous program with the greatest earnestness and […]

When I asked God to relieve me of the BONDAGE OF SELF, I wasn’t sure what I was asking for—it was just part of the Third […]

Are you settling into a comfort pattern or falling into a rut? There are many practical suggestions in our AA literature that, if followed, would lead […]