Big Book Study

 We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we recovered is the main purpose of this book. View Publication

  Men and women drink because they essentially like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive, that while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. View Publication

  It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make a beginning. View Publication

  The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we  have discovered a common solution. We have a way  out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which  we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This  is the great news this book carries to those who suffer  from alcoholism. View Publication

Once more, the alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power. View Publication

  Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this  Power? View Publication