Message #1
It’s not old behavior if I’m still doing it.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #2
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #3
If you are looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at who you’re trying to impress.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #4
An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he’s isolating.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #5
A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that AA meetings are free.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #6
The idea that alcoholics, drug addicts, over eaters, smokers, etc. etc. should all just go to AA Meetings because a disease, is a disease, is a disease… was started by a treatment center that only had one van.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #7
This is a ‘One Day at a Time’ program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #8
If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably alcoholic.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #9
I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #10
When I was new, I didn’t think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #11
How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #12
From a newcomer reading the ‘Promises’ for the first time – “We will comprehend the word cemetery and we will know peace.”
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
(Had to look up pg 84 – 85 in the BB to get that one…)
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Message #13
If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn’t be big enough to be God!
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #14
If you want to quit drinking, you are going to have to quit drinking.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #15
Newcomer – “How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week?”
Old timer – “Gradually cut back until you drink. Then you’ll know?”
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #16
I would rather go though life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #17
Resentments are like stray cats – if you don’t feed them, they’ll go away.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #18
The difference between a problem drinker and an Alcoholic is that –
a. When alcohol is taken away from the problem drinker, the problem goes away.
b. When alcohol is taken away from the Alcoholic, the problem begins.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #19
Before I came into AA, I was dead, but I did not know enough to lay down.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #20
I drank when I was happy. I drank when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to drink.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #21
You don’t have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don’t want to get well, you ARE sick.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #22
All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as possible.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #23
The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back.
-From “Intergroup Concerns” – Winter 2003
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Message #24
A newcomer is anyone with one day less sober time than me!
