1  The Best of The Grapevine, Volume 1 AA Preamble Foreword CHAPTER ONE: That We May Solve Our Common Problem You Don’t Know What Lonesome Is! Slips and Human Nature Anybody Seen My Dragon? The Fear of Feeling Rejected Ever Been on a Dry Drunk? Those Depressions–Make Them Work for Good! Just Keep On Going Self-Pity Can Kill The Green Demon Complacency—the Enemy Within Tradition One Tradition Three Caught In Hateland CHAPTER TWO: Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics Not Today, Thanks On Cultivating Tolerance Why Don’t We Talk About Sex? Responsibility Is the Name of the Game Coping with Unemployment The Impossible Dream Children Don’t Hide In AA Tradition Five Tradition Eleven Sponsor Your Doctor Are You Powerless Over Money? The Heart Attack Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics CHAPTER THREE: Men and Women Who Share You and I Need Each Other Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need It’s What Happened to Me Tradition Two The Whisper of Humility Tradition Four Real Rotation—or “Back Seat” Indispensables? How Group Conscious Are You? Tradition Seven Beginnings in Beirut CHAPTER FOUR: Experience, Strength, and Hope The Steps Are the Program When the Big “I” Becomes Nobody Truth Action and More Action The Big Book: One-Shot Deal or Constant Companion? Promises, Promises What About This 24-Hour Plan? A Selfish Program? How AA Works CHAPTER FIVE: Not Allied With Any Sect or Denomination The Bill W.–Carl Jung Letters After the Fall Seeking Through Meditation A Gift That Surpasses Understanding Prayer A Slob’s Guide to Spiritual Growth Why God Says No Tradition Twelve And Then an Eskimo Came Over the Hill What Is Acceptance? CHAPTER SIX: Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes The Shape of Things to Come AA Is Getting Too Organized! Our Primary Purpose and the Special-Purpose Group The Washingtonians Are We Letting Others Do Our Work? Those “Goof Balls” As Different as We Choose to Be Back to Basics Tradition Ten Over 40 Billion Problems Served Is Public Controversy Ever Justified? CHAPTER SEVEN: Alcoholics Anonymous Is a Fellowship Twelve Suggested Points for AA Tradition Dr. Bob: The Man and the