AA Sponsorship. The Four Absolutes. AA Prayers. A.A. Recovery - Meaning of the Circle-Triangle Symbol. Meaning of the Circle-Triangle Symbol In response to a query about the meaning of the Circle-Triangle Symbol I wrote this .....
The Sobriety Circle & Triangle Symbol, is the symbol used by Alcoholics Anonymous. The equilateral triangle represents the three part answer - unity, recovery and service - to a three part disease - physical, mental and spiritual, while the circle represents wholeness or oneness. The body should be triangular, stable, the mind circular, open. The triangle represents the means for generation of good energy, and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, and the source of unlimited potential. It has been used in many native cultures. Love and Peace, Barefoot Windwalker Index of A.A. As in so many things, especially with we alcoholics, our History is our Greatest Asset!..
ABC Page 60 -- Barefoot's Recovery Pages Barefoot's World On the Web April, 2007in the Spirit of Cooperation.
Alcoholics Anonymous : The12StepsPaulH. AA History. AA Community Resources. AA Step Work. Discussion: Alcoholics Anonymous and Atheists. A.A. History - The "ICK" And The "ISM" Click The Images To Go To Page Indicated In The Flag The "ICK" And The "ISM" Once you take alcohol away from an alcoholic, all that's left is the "ick".
I wanted to be able to have some integrity but I was not who I wanted to be. And this ties back into that seemingly hopeless state of mind and body because what I'm talking about now is discovering some of my own truth. One of the things that I had to finally discover was I do not have the power to be what it is I'd like to be. If my life is lived in such a way that I can't stand it and I don't like the truth about who I am, then I have to have some kind of solution for that, and the solution was simply to drink. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. If you can't handle drinking and you can't handle not drinking, then AA is for you. -- Clancy I. To recommend just sobriety is just about impossible for an alcoholic.
ABC Page 60 from the Big Book. An Atheist in AA. By Megan D.
When I entered our Program some 33 years ago, I was a complete cynic about life in general and the term “god” made me nauseous in particular. Actually, I was ‘terminally unique’ as we say, and the pecking order was clearly defined. The only places worthwhile were Los Angeles, and New York. And that was the way it was at the beginning.
Because I had no other place to go, above ground that is, I bore the unmitigated insult of ending up in the mortifying rooms of AA. When Charlie P. approached me in 1980 – I had only a few months of sobriety – and asked me to assist him in starting the first “We Agnostics” meeting on the West Coast, I jumped at the opportunity to find my own people. At six months sober though, there were those who were taking bets that I’d slide out the door on my fanny. Oxford Group. The Oxford Group was a Christian organization founded by American Christian missionary Dr.
Frank Buchman. Buchman was an American Lutheran minister of Swiss descent who in 1908 had a conversion experience in a chapel in Keswick, England and as a result of that experience he would later found a movement called A First Century Christian Fellowship in 1921, that eventually became known as the Oxford Group by 1931.[1] The Oxford Group enjoyed wide popularity and success, particularly in the 1930s. In 1932 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang, in summing up a discussion of the Oxford Groups with his Diocesan Bishops, said, "There is a gift here of which the church is manifestly in need.
Frank Buchman - A Life. Www.silkworth.net/aahistory/Step_4_Four_Absolutes_Inventory.pdf.