Saturday, July 30, 2011

Reducing Ego at Depth through Accurate Self-Survey

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Why the necessity of taking both an initial and a continuing moral inventory ? Principally, it is because we manufacture our own troubles a...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The Birth of a Spiritual Experience

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Regarding the taking of Step Five, the author of the 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous suggests that it is at this point in our re...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Ill-Advised, Yet Effective, Advice: "Don't Drink and Go to Meetings"

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To "just keep coming back," to go to "ninety meetings in ninety days," or to simply heed the advice "don't dri...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Unlearning Old Ideas and Attitudes

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One of the unique, paradoxical aspects of Alcoholics Anonymous (and its sister organizations) is "the reversal of form that A.A.'s ...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Power, Coercion and Acceptance

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In yet another paradox, the first half of Step One - the admittance that we are alcoholic - is perhaps the easiest one to take, yet admittin...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Overcoming the Paradox of "Self"

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Anyone familiar with 12 Step living has undoubtedly noted the many paradoxical concepts that underlie it: the need to surrender in order to ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Acceptance: An Old Take On a New Perspective

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(A)cceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation - s...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Stealing a Little Vicarious Pleasure

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"In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the al...