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Based on my experience, forgiveness is a necessary part of Step 8. Step 8 is the precursor to Step 9 ...

This GEM is from a meeting some months ago in Thunder Bay. Forgiveness is letting go of what I think ...

In our moral and personal inventories, we are instructed to create a Grudge List with people, institutions and principles that ...

Impression management is a difficult job involving unceasing labour. Without any independent self-esteem, I am dependent on what others think ...

I am spending a lot more time on the west coast these days. They have carefully cultivated gardens and shaped ...

If the world really loved me, it would know what to do to make me happy. If my wife really ...

Happiness is not complicated. Happiness is a lot like our Program. Our Program is straightforward. Happiness is simple; we can ...

“Even a foolish King can win a battle with good advisors.” (Paul at a meeting in Gulf Shores, Alabama.) Good ...

“Stay on the bus, the scenery will change.  Get off, and you are there forever.” --Heard at a recent meeting ...

This post is for the word freaks in the crowd. Words are really neat. And some words are just fascinating ...

I came to AA and found two dimensions: The Program and the Fellowship. At first, I paid more attention to ...

At a meeting last week someone shared that “the heart is a divine antenna.” An antenna picks up invisible radio ...

Making a peanut butter sandwich is the end result of a causal chain. It requires a series of events and ...

I am not interested in sky diving. But a fellow I know in the Program is; and he taught me ...

When I am running on self-will, I am entirely reliant on myself with no external power to help me. When ...

A share at a meeting: “It is amazing how long the day is when you are there for the whole ...