AA Thought for the Day

November 21, 2002

Rules

Were we to proceed by rules,
someone would have to make them and, more difficult still,
somebody would have to enforce them.
Rule-making has often been tried.
It usually results in controversy among the rule-makers
as to what the rules should be.
And when it comes to enforcing an edict --
well, you all know the answer...
Alcoholics (no matter if ragged) are yet
the most rugged of individuals,
true anarchists at heart.
- Bill W., September 1945.

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, pp. 6-7, From the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

The only limitations we have
are those we impose upon ourselves.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

U S = United Spirits.


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