April 10, 2005

Vigilance, the Price of Survival

Vigilance

"Now that we're in AA and sober, winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against the dangers of big-shot-ism, we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours."

Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 92 As Bill Sees It, p. 19

Thought to Consider . . .

"Vigilance will always be the price of survival."

Bill W., The AA Grapevine, November 1960. The Language of the Heart, p. 317

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