Steps and Traditions

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bluidkiti
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: Steps and Traditions


Steps and Traditions

In many self-governing countries
we are now seeing the inroads of ignorance, apathy,
and power-seeking upon democratic systems.
Their spiritual resources of right purpose
and collective intelligence are waning.
Consequently, many a land has become so helpless
that the only answer is dictatorship.
Happily for us, there seems little prospect
of such calamity in AA.
The life of each individual and of each group
is built around our Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
We very well know that the penalty
for extensive disobedience is death for the individual
and dissolution for the group.
- Bill W.
c. 1962 AAWS, Twelve Concepts For World Service [26th printing], p. 8

Thought to Ponder . . .

The Twelve Steps tell us how it works;
the Twelve Traditions tell us why it works.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

T R U S T =
Teaching Recovery Using Steps and Traditions.