I read through the Alcoholics Anonymous Website here and amended to my personal edicts!
Short Form
- Our common welfare should come first.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God. Our leaders are but trusted servants.
- The only requirement for membership is to serve others.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or the program as a whole.
- Our purpose is to care about the things we do and help teach others to become as great as they can become.
- The group ought never endorse, finance, or lend its name to any outside enterprise.
- Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- The program should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
- The program, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- The program has no opinion on outside issues; hence its name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion (word of mouth rather than marketing).
- Placing principles before personalities is the spiritual foundation of all our edicts.