Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. Tradition One
From the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Contents:
Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
Focus Questions from The Grapevine:1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members’ inventories?2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious preludes such as “just for the sake of discussion,” plunge into argument? 3. Am I gentle with those who rub me the wrong way, or am I abrasive?4. Do I make competitive AA remarks, such as comparing one group with another or contrasting AA in one place with AA in another?5. Do I put down some AA activities as if I were superior for not participating in this or that aspect of AA?6. Am I informed about AA as a whole? Do I support, in every way I can, AA as a whole, or just the parts I understand and approve of? 7. Am I as considerate of AA members as I want them to be of me? 8. Do I spout platitudes about love while indulging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility?9. Do I go to enough AA meetings or read enough AA literature to really keep in touch? 10. Do I share with AA all of me, the bad and the good, accepting as well as giving the help of fellowship?
From the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Contents:
Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
Focus Questions from The Grapevine:1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members’ inventories?2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious preludes such as “just for the sake of discussion,” plunge into argument? 3. Am I gentle with those who rub me the wrong way, or am I abrasive?4. Do I make competitive AA remarks, such as comparing one group with another or contrasting AA in one place with AA in another?5. Do I put down some AA activities as if I were superior for not participating in this or that aspect of AA?6. Am I informed about AA as a whole? Do I support, in every way I can, AA as a whole, or just the parts I understand and approve of? 7. Am I as considerate of AA members as I want them to be of me? 8. Do I spout platitudes about love while indulging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility?9. Do I go to enough AA meetings or read enough AA literature to really keep in touch? 10. Do I share with AA all of me, the bad and the good, accepting as well as giving the help of fellowship?
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