During nine years in A.A. I have observed that those who follow the Alcoholics Anonymous program with the greatest earnestness and zeal, not only maintain sobriety, but often acquire finer characteristics and attitudes as well. One of these is tolerance. Tolerance expresses itself in a variety of ways: in kindness and consideration toward the manContinue reading “On Cultivating Tolerance – Grapevine Article by AA Co-Founder Dr. Bob July 1944”
Category Archives: Tolerance
Reflection October 10th – Every Day A New Beginning
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. —Billie Holiday Our struggles with other people always take their toll on us. They often push us to behavior we’re not proud of. They may result in irreparable rifts. They frequently trigger an emotional relapse. No battle is worth the damage to the psyche thatContinue reading “Reflection October 10th – Every Day A New Beginning”
Love – Grapevine Article September 1988 By C.C. North Hollywood, CA
The spiritual growth we enjoy in Alcoholics Anonymous is a product of the never ending school for living which our Fellowship provides. The subject in that school that opened my eyes most quickly and filled my heart most fully was love. I really never knew what true love was until I began my recovery inContinue reading “Love – Grapevine Article September 1988 By C.C. North Hollywood, CA”
AA Mashup On Relapse – From Big Book, Grapevine Article Dr. Harry Tiebout (Enter Honesty) and ‘Grapevine Article (A New Take on Acceptance) January 2002 By Don P.
BIG BOOK PAGE 151 & 152 (A VISION FOR YOU) Now and then a serious drinker, being dry at the moment says, “I don’t miss it at all. Feel better. Work better. Having a better time.” As ex-problem drinkers, we smile at such a sally. We know our friend is like a boy whistling inContinue reading “AA Mashup On Relapse – From Big Book, Grapevine Article Dr. Harry Tiebout (Enter Honesty) and ‘Grapevine Article (A New Take on Acceptance) January 2002 By Don P.”
We Get What We Get – Grapevine Article October 2001 by Ernest S
MY LOCAL MEETINGS ARE BIG on this spot – check reminder : you get what you get ; it’s what you do with it that counts From attending AA meetings in Iowa for the two years I spent in graduate school there, I brought home this question to add to my daily Tenth Step checklistContinue reading “We Get What We Get – Grapevine Article October 2001 by Ernest S”
Daily Reflection – September 19th “Each Day A New Beginning”
…concern should drive us into action and not into depression. —Karen Horney The role of victim is all too familiar to many of us. Life did us injustices – we thought. And we passively waited for circumstances to change. With the bottle we waited, or maybe the little white pills. Nothing was our fault. ThatContinue reading “Daily Reflection – September 19th “Each Day A New Beginning””
Daily Reflection September 12th – Each Day A New Beginning
No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, and every person is your teacher.—Florence Scovel Shinn We can open ourselves to opportunities today. They abound in our lives. No circumstance we find ourselves in is detrimental to our progress. No relationship with someone at work or at home is superfluous to our development.Continue reading “Daily Reflection September 12th – Each Day A New Beginning”
Fear – Grapevine Article by Dr. Hal S September 1963
How to turn this potential defect into an asset On the morning of my fifth AA birthday, now some time ago, I arrived at my office to be greeted by the receptionist with the message that a telegram awaited me. Upon opening it, I discovered that it was a thoughtful greeting from an old AAContinue reading “Fear – Grapevine Article by Dr. Hal S September 1963”
Spiritual Awakening, Development, and Responding To Disillusionment – Two Paragraph Gems From Step 12 of Twelve& Twelve
From page 106/107 – “Maybe there are as many definitions of spiritual awakenings as there are people who have had them. But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others. And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand. When a man or a woman hasContinue reading “Spiritual Awakening, Development, and Responding To Disillusionment – Two Paragraph Gems From Step 12 of Twelve& Twelve”
What Does ‘Surrender’ Mean? – Grapevine April 1963 Dr. Harry Tiebout
My first two or three years of contact with AA were the most exciting in my whole professional life. AA was then in its miracle phase; everything that happened seemed strange, wonderful, out of this world. Hopeless drunks were being lifted out of the gutter. Individuals who had sought every known means of help, without success, wereContinue reading “What Does ‘Surrender’ Mean? – Grapevine April 1963 Dr. Harry Tiebout”