Extracts:
“As
finally expressed and offered, they [the Steps] are simple in
language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person
having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are
the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no
special interpretations and certainly no reservations have ever
been necessary”.
“We
are not bound by the thongs of theological doctrine”.
“We
have found it wise policy, too, to hold to no glorification of the
individual. Obviously, that is
sound. Most of us will concede that when it came to the personal
showdown of admitting our failures and deciding to surrender our will
and our lives to Almighty God, as we
understood Him, we
still had some sneaking ideas of personal justification and excuse.
We had to discard them but
the ego of the alcoholic dies a hard death.
Many of us because of activity have received praise not only from our
fellow A.A's but from the world at large. We would be ungrateful
indeed to be boorish when that happens
yet it is so easy for us to become, privately perhaps, just a little
vain about it all.
Yet, fitting and
wearing halos is not for us.
We've
all seen the new member who stays sober for a time, largely through
sponsor-worship.
Then maybe the sponsor gets drunk and you know what
usually happens. Left without a human prop, the new member gets drunk
too. He has been glorifying an individual instead of following the
Program.
Certainly
we need leaders but we must regard them as the human agents of the
Higher Power and not with undue adulation as individuals”.
“Our
organization needs no title-holders nor grandiose buildings”.
“In
as large an organization as ours, we naturally have had our share of
those who fail to measure up to certain obvious standards of conduct.
They have included schemers for personal gain, petty swindlers and
confidence men, crooks of various kinds and other human fallibles”.
(our
emphases)
Cheers
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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