Tradition One

[Stacie S]

Tradition One

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"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovdry depends upon A.A. unity."

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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.

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[Nichol_R.]

I always have to remember principles before personialties. A big toughy for me. But, I try very hard on a daily basis to rember that. A.A. depends on our common ties to keep A.A. together as a whole. We would never mix in a "mormal" crowd of people, but our alcoholism keeps us toger. Let's remember that we all came from almost the same place and for some of us that is the gates of Hell.

[magpie]

the traditions were put before the world convention in
1950 in cleveland to stop AA BREAKING UP
they could not have it ib akron cos the newyork people
and los angeles groups would not go.
for the same reason it could not be held on the east or west coast,
so they had it in the middle
and the first tradition was about unity ,i wonder why
thanks
magpie