AA Thought for the Day

June 13, 2004

Anonymity

We alcoholics are the biggest rationalizers in the world,
and fortified with the excuse
that we are doing great things for AA,
we can, through broken anonymity,
resume our old and disastrous pursuit
of personal power and prestige,
public honors, and money -- the same forces
that are today ripping the globe apart at the seams.
These lessons make clear that enough spectacular
anonymity breakers could someday
carry our whole society down
into that ruinous dead end with them.

- Bill W.
Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pp. 292-293, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Walk softly and carry a Big Book.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

A N O N Y M O U S = Actions, Not Our Names, Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service.


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