As Bill Sees It

Essence of Growth

April 21, 2026


Let us never fear needed change.

Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better.

But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in A.A. as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way.

The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibilty this entails.


GRAPEVINE, JULY 1965

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