11th Step

"Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 16

“Of course he couldn’t drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him? After all, had he not been sober six months now? Perhaps he could handle, say, three drinks—no more! Fear gripped him. He was on thin ice.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, Page 154~

"Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, Page 30~

“Bitterly discouraged, he found himself in a strange place, discredited and almost broke. Still physically weak, and sober but a few months, he saw that his predicament was dangerous. He wanted so much to talk with someone, but whom?”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, Page 154~

“Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life. You will learn the full meaning of ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’ ” ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, Page 152-153~

“We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 83~

We took stock honestly. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Page 64~

“We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.” ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 83~

"A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values. We did exactly the same thing with our lives. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition Page 64~

“Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.” ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 83~