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Table of Contents
Landmarks
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
AA Preamble
Contents
Foreword
ONE. That We May Solve Our Common Problem
You Don’t Know What Lonesome Is!
Slips and Human Nature
Anybody Seen My Dragon?
The Fear of Feeling Rejected
Ever Been on a Dry Drunk?
Those Depressions–Make Them Work for Good!
Just Keep On Going
Self-Pity Can Kill
The Green Demon
Complacency—the Enemy Within
Tradition One
Tradition Three
Caught In Hateland
TWO. Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics
Not Today, Thanks
On Cultivating Tolerance
Why Don’t We Talk About Sex?
Responsibility Is the Name of the Game
Coping with Unemployment
The Impossible Dream
Children
Don’t Hide In AA
Tradition Five
Tradition Eleven
Sponsor Your Doctor
Are You Powerless Over Money?
The Heart Attack
Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics
THREE. Men and Women Who Share
You and I Need Each Other
Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need
It’s What Happened to Me
Tradition Two
The Whisper of Humility
Tradition Four
Real Rotation—or “Back Seat” Indispensables?
How Group Conscious Are You?
Tradition Seven
Beginnings in Beirut
FOUR. Experience, Strength, and Hope
The Steps Are the Program
When the Big “I” Becomes Nobody
Truth
Action and More Action
The Big Book: One-Shot Deal or Constant Companion?
Promises, Promises
What About This 24-Hour Plan?
A Selfish Program?
How AA Works
FIVE. Not Allied With Any Sect or Denomination
The Bill W.–Carl Jung Letters
After the Fall
Seeking Through Meditation
A Gift That Surpasses Understanding
Prayer
A Slob’s Guide to Spiritual Growth
Why God Says No
Tradition Twelve
And Then an Eskimo Came Over the Hill
What Is Acceptance?
SIX. Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes
The Shape of Things to Come
AA Is Getting Too Organized!
Our Primary Purpose and the Special-Purpose Group
The Washingtonians
Are We Letting Others Do Our Work?
Those “Goof Balls”
As Different as We Choose to Be
Back to Basics
Tradition Ten
Over 40 Billion Problems Served
Is Public Controversy Ever Justified?
SEVEN. Alcoholics Anonymous is a Fellowship
Twelve Suggested Points for AA Tradition
Dr. Bob: The Man and the Physician
Bill’s Wife Remembers When
“Let’s Keep It Simple…” But How?
Tradition Six
Services Make AA Tick
Tradition Eight
Tradition Nine
Why Alcoholics Anonymous Is Anonymous
The Preamble (a brief history)
The Twelve Steps
The Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Grapevine
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
AA Preamble
Contents
Foreword
ONE. That We May Solve Our Common Problem
Then I Saw Charlie
Remembering a Girl—Defeated Except Once
The Minister Says the Password
The Kid Who Came In from the Cold
Without a Secret High
I’m Unique—But I Want to Belong
Rock ‘n Roll Sobriety
My Name Is Bertha…
Condemned to Live an Underground Life
The Stranger
I Want to Belong
The Great Equalizer
TWO. Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics
Unmanageable Lives
Martian Report on the Curious Cult of “Alcohol” Drinkers
Eager Beaver
Divided I Stand
The Answers Will Come
Get a Fresh Start
Did Anonymity Help Kill Jim?
Boy Lying in the Grass
The Shrivelage Principle
Learning to Handle Sobriety
THREE. Men and Women Who Share
Will We Squander Our Inheritance?
Leaders in Sober Living
The Stranger
I Don’t Go to Meetings Anymore
People Are Like People
Passing the Basket…or Passing the Buck?
All This Reading at AA Meetings…?
Of Cakes and Ale
No Price Tag on Benefits
What AA Meetings Taught a Non-AA Counselor
FOUR. Experience, Strength, and Hope
Those Twelve Steps as I Understand Them
First Step
Second Step
Third Step
Fourth Step
The Twelve Steps Revisited—Step Five
Sixth Step
Seventh Step
8½
Editorial: on the Ninth Step
“When We Were Wrong”
Eleventh Step
Twelfth Step
FIVE. Not Allied With Any Sect Or Denomination
Paradox of Power
No Trumpets Blew
So That’s a Spiritual Experience!
Breakthrough
Traffic Goes Both Ways
Closet Atheist
God Is Not Yourself
SIX. Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes
We Could Blow the Whole Thing
“Let the Bum Find Us”
Are We Forgetting Twelfth Step Calls?
Exclusive—or More Inclusive?
Opportunity Knocks
AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems
So You Want a “Celebrity” Speaker?
Generalizations Can Be Dangerous
Another Vision for You
SEVEN. Alcoholics Anonymous Is a Fellowship
The Fundamentals—In Retrospect
People and Principles
Because One Man Was Lonely
It Might Have Been the Time…
Was My Leg Being Pulled?
Service Is the Reason
Give My Regards to New York
Gifts from the Past
Guardian of AA—Our General Service Conference
The Twelve Steps
The Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Grapevine
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
The. BEST. of the. GRAPEVINE
AA Preamble
Contents
Preface
ONE. Stories
More Precious Than Life
The Stranger
A Long Way Down
He Gave Me the Shirt Off His Back
My Name Is John and I’m an Alcoholic
Drunk and Disorderly
TWO. AA Around the World
Making Manuel Drink
People, Places, and Things
One in a Billion
A Long Way from Akron
A Healthy Appetite for Beer
Grupa Una
THREE. The Home Group
In the Grip of the Group
A Nude Awakening
Who’s Sitting Next to You?
Serenidad in Central Square
A Near Fatality on the Information Superhighway
Kids R Us
Together We Can
FOUR. Overcoming Adversity
How to Make a Wheelchair Fly
No Longer Alone
Another Hand to Help Me Along
Breaker, Breaker
When Outside Issues Creep In
You Mean You’re Still Married?
Soledad’s Search
The Care and Feeding of Resentments
Flight Pattern
FIVE. Interviews
Spellbound by AA: An Interview With Nell Wing
An Interview With the Author of “Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict”
An Interview With the Author of “Physician, Heal Thyself!”
An Interview With The Author of “The Independent Blonde”
SIX. Is AA Changing?
Surrender—Not Self-Improvement
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Is There a Grapevine in Your Future?
Rules of Thumb
AA Is Not Group Therapy
Too Young?
SEVEN. The Twelve Steps
Admitting Powerlessness
Cold Sober
A Program of Action
We Set Them on Paper
Building an Arch
The Choice
The Pain Was Lifted
The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten
A Benchmark in Sobriety
How to Lose 100 Ugly Pounds
Trusting the Silence
In My Native Tongue
EIGHT. The Twelve Traditions
The Best of an Awkward Situation
The Other Side of Self-Support
Service: A Framework for the Future
Out of the Hat
The Costume and the Mask
Indelible Humility
The Washingtonians—Where Are They Now?
NINE. Special Features
Experience, Strength, and Hope—a Visit to the Soviet Union
AA: How Can We Help You?
Coming of Age
Corporate Poverty
TEN. Old-Timers Corner
Love
Confessions of a Big Book Thumper
Dropout
Ph. Drunk
Learning to Fly
Mended by AA
Life Is Meant to Be Lived
The Twelve Steps
The Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Grapevine
Volume 1
The Language of the Heart (& eBook)
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September 1961
I’m in my eleventh year of sobriety in AA and it’s not at all like I thought it would be in those first few tremulous months.
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