AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy aa-alive.net)
February 24, 2026
Self-Knowledge
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be
absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon
our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 39
Thought to Ponder . . .
Nobody ever found recovery as a result of an intellectual awakening.
AA-related 'Alconym'
I S M = I Sabotage Myself.
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