About the Big Book

ABOUT THE AA BIG BOOK

Let's Leave the Big Book alone, and change our own attitudes toward it

Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. - Big Book Page 164

Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made to it. - Big Book Page xi

Steps to Recovery and Spiritual Principles to Live By

The Triumphant Arch through which We Pass to Freedom

It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. I saw that growth could start from that point. Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I would! Big Book Pg 12:4

As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. Big Book Pg 47:2 (The Second Step Promise)

Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom. Big Book Pg 62:3