Are the 12 Steps Only Suggestions?
Can you imagine the reaction in a meeting, if Bill W., the Co-Founder of AA, said the following in a meeting today — as he wrote in the book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions:
“Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant. His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.”
~Bill W. pg 174, 12&12
Oh what an order!
When I read the above quote from Bill W. in the 12 &12 this morning — I wondered what the Fellowships of today would have said to him if he said that in one of their meetings. OMG! Bill! Love & Tolerance! Progress rather than Perfection! You’ll drive the newcomers out Bill! — those are only suggestions!!! Easy Does it! Bill! You sound like one of those Big Book Thumpers!
Bill W. is a C0-Founder of AA. He wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous — for the original Pioneer’s in the Fellowship of A.A.
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