Even if I got my own way -people did everything I wanted them to, what would I have? What would I gain. Picture a person filthy rich and powerful karma people at his or her beckoned call. Surrounded by yes men and yes women. Would there be any growth? Who people actually admire and respect this individual freely? When we take an extreme view of things it tends to give us better perspective. In Alcoholics Anonymous there’s a saying, think the drink through – When we rush in time, and try to envision the end result -we can act more appropriately in the here and now, and hopefully make the right adjustments before-hand. Before it’s too late in many instances. I think engineers are renowned for this sort of approach.

From a very early age, I got a slap across my face that sent ripples through my… and shivers down my spine! For the remainder of most of my natural life… Fear, and the bolstering of my badly injured ego…

Ego + Fwar are formidable adversaries.

All busines, and no humanness makes Jack a dull boy!

I didn’t learn about things like love and tolerance and patience by laying down a bunch of rules that cater to my anxieties anxieties and selfish inclinations. This seems to be what’s going on in the 7:00 a.m. meeting. If you let an alcoholic get away with it, they will cater to their alcoholism.

What happens when the majority vote turns out to be wrong? What happens when the majority vote is based more upon the issue then the feelings of the minority?? We have it in our capacity to Pasadena to sway our vote based upon how the decision is affecting a smaller minority of the group.

People in this country have grown too self conscious..

You can’t have violence without anger. Violence is always preceded by hanger, or fear.

Some people at the group conscious level, have no idea what effects the changes they are bringing into the group or having on the group and under the individual as well. How college anonymous was carefully planned and guided by a spiritual… I’ve set up a 4 com in a million years a million alcoholics would never be able to duplicate the program that was given to us by God if left to their own devices.

Alcoholics non Anonymous doesn’t require leaders, innovators, shakers and movers…. It requires people who know how to follow instructions and nothing more.

I didn’t make up the rules for the 7:00 a.m. meeting-they were here before I got here and I’ve had to conform to them.. Not supplant them with my own!

There’s at least 2 kinds of unhappy:

•Unhappy because you don’t like what’s going on;

•Unhappy based upon something you don’t realize is going on.

Alcoholics Anonymous is not a business, and its foundation is spiritual principles karma and therefore innovation and evolution evolution are not required-in fact they are detrimental!*

Young people go along with things because they don’t know any better calm because they assume that the people bringing things up know what they’re talking about. The problem is two-fold:

1. You’re not practicing individualistic thinking;

2. Some of these people who are bringing things to the forefront don’t know what they’re talking about -or doing;

3. Adding fuel to the fire by standing behind them when you don’t know what they’re doing and they don’t know what they’re doing could turn out to be designed you’re not to be disastrous in the end.

3. Many people operate out of ignorance but some people operate out of selfishness or true intent of mouth Int of malice. That is why it is so important for you and me to know what’s going on.

*Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritually based program-and spiritual program-and spiritual principles do not evolve evolve, or innovate, or change-it is the one constant in the universe contrary to many a man’s own nature.

There’s too much personality and too little principle going on in that 7:00 a.m. meeting.

I see certain people in this meeting possibly overly concerned about how this meeting functions. Our primary concern by far should be:

• Is practicing these principles;

• Constant thought of others and how we may best serve them;

• Working with the alcoholic who still suffers.

• We are in the world to play the role God assigns us, to that extent are we able to match Calamity with Serenity.