AA Thought for the Day

My own life story gathered for years
around an implacable pursuit of money, fame, and power,
anticlimaxed by my near sinking in a sea of alcohol.
Though I survived that grim misadventure, I well understand
that the dread neurotic germ of the power contagion
has survived in me also. It is only dormant,
and it can again multiply and rend me -- and AA too.
Tens of thousands of my fellow AA's are temperamentally
just like me. Fortunately, they know it, and I know it.
Hence our Tradition of anonymity,
and hence my clear obligation to decline this signal honor
with all the immediate satisfaction
and benefit it could have yielded.
- Bill W., declining Yale University Honorary Degree, February 1954.

Thought to Ponder....

Many people haven't even a nodding acquaintance
with humility as a way of life.

Recovery Related Acronym

P R I D E = Personal Recovery Involves Deflating Ego.