AA conference approved publication I had been attending meetings for quite a few years when someone introduced me to “The language of the heart.” This is an AA conference-approved publication. In the early 90’s it wasn’t that well known in the London fellowship. Someone suggested that I ignore the rest of the book and just […]
“Rarely have we seen a person fail….” A section of Chapter 5 from the Big Book is read at the beginning of AA meetings worldwide. It starts with “Rarely have we seen a person fail” (p. 58) and ends with the “three pertinent ideas” on p. 60 This introductory passage from Chapter 5, “How it […]
What are the 12 promises of AA? The number 12 keeps coming up again and again in Alcoholics Anonymous. I have often wondered if twelve has any significance in numerology. Actually, it does. The number twelve carries religious, mythological and magical symbolism, generally representing perfection, entirety; or cosmic order in traditions since antiquity. Wikipedia Perhaps it […]