May 16

"I believe most of us would agree that the general idea of anonymity is sound, because it encourages alcoholics and the families of alcoholics to approach us for help. Still fearful of being stigmatized, they regard our anonymity as an assurance their problems will be kept confidential; that the alcoholic skeleton in the family closet will not wander in the streets."


Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1946

"Our Anonymity Is Both Inspiration and Safety"

The Language of the Heart

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May 17


"AA's greatest power is not in the program itself, but in the examples of the men [and women] who have followed it."


Walla Walla,Wash., February 1955

"Prisoner AA,"

AA Grapevine

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May 18


"My home group's primary purpose is to carry the AA message to the alcoholic who still suffers. Some of those have much sobriety, because the alcoholic who still suffers is not necessarily a newcomer. However, when newcomers do show up at our home group we try to focus our discussion on what's in the Big Book and how it can help them if they are willing to follow some simple suggestions."


Paso Robles, Calif., May 1998

"The Cement That Binds Us,"

AA Grapevine

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May 19

"Each day I feel myself growing in recovery. I can honestly say I'm happier now than ever before in my adult life."


Palmdale, Calif., July 1992

"An Unexpected Shot at Life,"

AA Grapevine

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May 20

"Through Step Five, God has removed my shame about being an alcoholic."

Step by Step Book

Syracuse, N.Y., May 2001

"Lifting the Burden,"

Step By Step

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May 21

"I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole. That's the time for me to back off and trust that God's will is far better than mine."


Elloree, S.C., November 2013

"Square Peg, Round Hole,"

AA Grapevine

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May 22


"Over the years I've gone to different types of groups to meet different needs in my life or to share experience, strength, and hope about a particular problem I was struggling with. Some days I've been part of the solution for another suffering alcoholic; other days I've been the one who was suffering.


"Thanks to our Fifth Tradition, no matter what my needs or my location I can find an AA group where I can talk about -- and listen to -- not drinking one day at a time, practicing the principles in all of my affairs, and being happily and usefully whole."

Kensington, Md., May 1996

"A Consistent Message,"

AA Grapevine

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May 23


"The word 'alcoholic' does not turn me off anymore; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me."


July 1975

"One of Those Bad Cons Nobody Can Reach,"

AA Grapevine

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May 24

"While wealth and authority lie at the foundation of many a noble institution, we of AA now apprehend, and thoroughly well, that these things are not for us. Have we not found that one man's meat is often another man's poison?"


Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1947

"Will AA Ever Have a Personal Government?"

The Language of the Heart

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May 25


"We are not a sociological entity, although sociologists find us fascinating. We are not a therapy group, although remarkable healing takes place among us. And we are not a religion, even though some people want to see us as such ... We are a spiritual entity."


May 2006

"Tradition Five: What a Group 'Ought' to Be,"

AA Grapevine

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May 26


"AA is not a separate country, cut off from the mainland of the real world; it is the schoolroom I missed somewhere along the line ... a treasure house of other people's experience, strength and hope."


Norman, Okla., July 1992

"Out of This World,"

AA Grapevine

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May 27


"I have learned in the program not to listen to the voice of my ego when it starts whispering things."


Clayton, Calif., May 2012

"Uprooted,"

AA Grapevine

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May 28


"The most beautiful gifts of my life come to me in packages I do not recognize at first glance. In fact, I often don't see them until I've stumbled over them. Yet I know that when I go about my business in service to AA and to others these gifts will appear, usually in the most unexpected places."


Costa Mesa, Calif., February 1993

"The Gift of Sobriety,"

AA Grapevine

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