From our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org, Big Book topics for discussion, meditation or use with a sponsee. For background on the origins of these topics, go to AA Book Club.org/topics.
Pause, Take it Easy, Pray for Help and Guidance
Where Does AA Promise Me Sobriety?
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. (Page 58)
The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. (Page 83)
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone— even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition. (Page 84-85)
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