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Throwback Thursday AA history/Literature post - Read Bill's 1948 Grapevine article on Tradition Two: Tradition Two Sooner or later, every AA comes to depend upon a Power greater than himself. He finds that the God of his understanding is not only a source of strength, but also a source of positive direction. Realizing that some fraction of that infinite resource is now available, his life takes on and entirely different complexion. He experiences a new inner security together with such a sense of destiny and purpose as he has never known before. As each day passes, our AA reviews his mistakes and vicissitudes. He learns from daily experience what his remaining character defects are and becomes ever more willing that they be removed. In this fashion he improves his conscious contact with God. Every AA group follows this same cycle of development. We are coming to realize that each group, as well as each individual, is a special entity, not qui...
Big Book topics for meditation, study or use with a sponsee, from our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org): Magnificent, Marvelous Reality The mind and body are marvelous mechanisms. (Page 6) Logic is great stuff. We liked it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and to draw conclusions. That is one of man's magnificent attributes. (Page 53) When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? (Page 53) They knew they had a host of new friends; it seemed they had known these strangers always. They had seen miracles, and one was to come to them. They had visioned the Great Reality their loving and All Powerful Creator. (Page 161) Maximum Service or Half Measures If you have decided you want w...
Realm of Spirit: This and similar terms appear to describe our condition after the Spiritual Awakening mentioned several times in our literature. (From our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org): Big Book: "We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men." Page 46, We Agnostics "We asked ourselves this: Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?" Page 51, We Agnostics "This thought brings us to Step Ten , which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit." Page 84, Into Action, Step Ten "Abandon yourse...
