pg. 28 Troublemakers Can Be Teachers Few of us are and longer afraid of what any newcomer can do to our A. A. reputation or effectiveness. Those who slip, those who panhandle, those who scandalize, those with mental twists, those who rebel at the program, those who trade on the A. A. reputation--all such persons seldom harm an A. A. group for long. Some of these have become our most respected and best loved. Some have remained to try our patience, sober nevertheless. Other have drifted away. We have begun to regard the troublesome ones not as menaces, but rather as our teachers. They oblige us to cultivate patience, tolerance, and humility. We finally see that they are only people sicker than the rest of us, that we who condemn them are the Pharisees whose false righteousness does our group the deeper spiritual damage. Grapevine, August 1946
This kind of goes along with that "i felt like hitting this guy at a meeting thread"
It isn't easy to have self control when somebody really presses your buttons, but it most certainly is an exercise , if you take it on to deal with it in a better way!!
