We offer a road, a path, or directions to help people follow the trail blazed by the pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous. As with many roads and highways, the "route number" identifies the road (or, in this case, the page number of the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous. "Route 164" offers directions (or suggestions) to help you find your way to the "Road of Happy Destiny."

Page 164 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous speaks of a path or road: "We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us."

"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."

For additional help in finding the "right path or route", turn to Chapter 5 - How It Works, page 58: "Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves."

What else associated with the number five has significance? AA's 5th Tradition. In the "long form", it reads "5: Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose-that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

This website is intended to help those who wish to "trudge the road of Happy Destiny", learn "How it Works" and Carry The Message to alcoholics who still suffer.

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