AA Book Club

  Tuesday spiritual literature - from Oneness, Great Principles Shared By All Religions by Jeffrey Moses: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap It is nature's rule, that as we sow, we shall reap. - Buddhism Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. - Christianity As  man soweth so shall he reap. - Sikhism A liberal man will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. - Judaism What proceeds from you will return to you. - Confucianism Thou canst not gather what thou dost not sow; as thou dost plant the tree, so it will grow. - Hinduism *************************************** Conquer With Love Repay evil with good and, lo, he between whom and you there was enmity will become your warm friend. - I slam Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. - Christianity When one injures another, the injured turns around and injures the injurer. Similarly, when one cherishes another, the other cherishes the cherisher. One should frame one's rule of conduct according to th...

 Thoughts for the week: November 28 To truly desire to do God's will, therein lies happiness for a human being. We start out wanting our own way. We want our wills to be satisfied. We take and we do not give. Gradually we find that we are not happy when we are selfish, so we begin to make allowances for other people's wills. But this again does not give us full happiness, and we begin to see that the only way to be truly happy is to try to do God's will. In these times of meditation, we seek to get guidance so that we can find God's will for us.  24 Hours a Day November 29  Passive Before God To be sensitive is good, because sensitive people are aware of a thousand interesting or beautiful things where the obtuse person gets nothing. To do any creative work you have to be sensitive; because the creative worker is a "receiver set" for divine mind. Around the Year with Emmet Fox   (Excerpt) December 3   Light And Salvation When trouble of any kind comes ...

 Saturday speaker link - Clancy I.:

  Throwback Thursday history link - The first bulletin from the Alcoholic Foundation (precursor to the General Service Office), November, 1940:

  From the Dhammapada, a collection of short sayings of The Buddha:

Thoughts for the week: November 21 You were meant to be at home and comfortable in the world. Yet some people live a life of quiet desperation. This is the opposite of being at home and at peace in the world. Let your peace of mind be evident to those around you. Let others see that you are comfortable, and seeing it, know that it springs from your trust in a Higher Power. The dull, hard way of resignation is not God's way. Faith takes the sting out of the winds of adversity and brings peace even in the midst of struggle.  24 Hours a Day November 22 Charity means to care enough about other people to really want to do something for them. A smile, a word of encouragement, a word of love, goes winged on its way, simple though it may seem, while the mighty words of an orator fall on deaf ears. Use up the odd moments of your day in trying to do some little things to cheer up another person. Boredom comes from thinking too much about yourself. 24 Hours a Day November 23  Increasing ...

 Saturday speaker link - Scott R.:  

  Throwback Thursday history link - Bill W's Wall Street years (audio):

 Fulton Oursler, editor of Liberty magazine, published the first national article on A.A. in 1939, and wrote this article himself in 1940:

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  Saturday speaker link - Sandy Beach "Letting Go and Letting God": Sandy B. - AA Speaker - "Letting Go, Letting God" - YouTube

  Tuesday literature link - early reviews of the first edition of the Big Book:

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Saturday speaker link Adam T.:

  Throwback Thursday history link - Biography of Dr. Bob's early years (audio):

  Tuesday literature link - PDF of For Sinners Only by A.J. Russell, a major work of the Oxford Group, which helped give birth to A.A.: