AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy aa-alive.net)
January 8, 2026
Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that we had been given the courage to declare each A.A.
group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only
two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which would greatly injure A.A. as
a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Four) p. 147
Thought to Ponder . . .
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help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
AA-related 'Alconym'
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