We are not a glum lot

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83 To read the Daily Reflection online visit: http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm From the book Daily Reflections © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World [...]

Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive others–also myself. AS BILL SEE IT p. 268 To read the Daily Reflection online visit: http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm From the book Daily Reflections © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that [...]

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. . . . But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.age 66 To read the Daily Reflection online visit: http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm From the book [...]

Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. . . . they have turned to easier methods. . . . But they had not learned enough humility. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 72-73 To read the Daily Reflection online visit: http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm From the book Daily Reflections © Copyright [...]

If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 To read the Daily Reflection online visit: http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm From the book Daily Reflections © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If. . . Step Four . . . has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’d rather not remember . . . then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting [...]