AA Thought for the Day

March 21, 2002

Contradictions

While it's not for us to take a moral inventory of the world
in any sense of pride or superiority,
I do think it fair and timely to point out
we AA's have thus far demonstrated a collective behavior
probably much superior to our individual conduct.
The whole, in our case, seems to be rather better
than the sum of its individual parts.
We are pretty much a bunch of power-drivers.
Yet AA, as a whole has never quarreled with anybody.
We like money for ourselves but we keep
our Fellowship treasuries poor.
We like prestige, yet we somehow remain anonymous.
As individuals, we are apt to be aggressive,
yet our Society as a whole is quite nonaggressive,
minding its own business.
Bill W., November 1959

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 344, From the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

(thanks p2)

T E A M/B> = T/B>ogether E/B>veryone A/B>chieves More.


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