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Table of Contents
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The Best of The Grapevine, Volume 1
AA Preamble
Foreword
CHAPTER ONE: That We May Solve Our Common Problem
You Don’t Know What Lonesome Is!
Slips and Human Nature
Anybody Seen My Dragon?
The Fear of Feeling Rejected
Ever Been on a Dry Drunk?
Those Depressions–Make Them Work for Good!
Just Keep On Going
Self-Pity Can Kill
The Green Demon
Complacency—the Enemy Within
Tradition One
Tradition Three
Caught In Hateland
CHAPTER TWO: Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics
Not Today, Thanks
On Cultivating Tolerance
Why Don’t We Talk About Sex?
Responsibility Is the Name of the Game
Coping with Unemployment
The Impossible Dream
Children
Don’t Hide In AA
Tradition Five
Tradition Eleven
Sponsor Your Doctor
Are You Powerless Over Money?
The Heart Attack
Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics
CHAPTER THREE: Men and Women Who Share
You and I Need Each Other
Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need
It’s What Happened to Me
Tradition Two
The Whisper of Humility
Tradition Four
Real Rotation—or “Back Seat” Indispensables?
How Group Conscious Are You?
Tradition Seven
Beginnings in Beirut
CHAPTER FOUR: Experience, Strength, and Hope
The Steps Are the Program
When the Big “I” Becomes Nobody
Truth
Action and More Action
The Big Book: One-Shot Deal or Constant Companion?
Promises, Promises
What About This 24-Hour Plan?
A Selfish Program?
How AA Works
CHAPTER FIVE: Not Allied With Any Sect or Denomination
The Bill W.–Carl Jung Letters
After the Fall
Seeking Through Meditation
A Gift That Surpasses Understanding
Prayer
A Slob’s Guide to Spiritual Growth
Why God Says No
Tradition Twelve
And Then an Eskimo Came Over the Hill
What Is Acceptance?
CHAPTER SIX: Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes
The Shape of Things to Come
AA Is Getting Too Organized!
Our Primary Purpose and the Special-Purpose Group
The Washingtonians
Are We Letting Others Do Our Work?
Those “Goof Balls”
As Different as We Choose to Be
Back to Basics
Tradition Ten
Over 40 Billion Problems Served
Is Public Controversy Ever Justified?
CHAPTER SEVEN: Alcoholics Anonymous Is a Fellowship
Twelve Suggested Points for AA Tradition
Dr. Bob: The Man and the