Group Conscience

Patient:  Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.  (Ed. Note: Oh, go fuck yourself.)

"The elder statesman is the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments."

"I need Alcoholics Anonymous a lot more than Alcoholics Anonymous needs me."  Tom R.  (Tom was my temporary sponsor when I first moved to California.)

Conscience:  The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behavior.

"This is the experience which has led us to the conclusion that our group conscience . . . will be in the long run wiser than any single leader."

 Group Consciousness:  The awareness exhibited by individual group members about the group, its members, and their commonalities.  Just as self-consciousness pertains to awareness of the self, so group consciousness pertains to awareness of the collective.

People who want change usually aren't vocal about it while people who want things to stay the same fight tooth and nail against the change.

"Seaweed, do me a favor - try not to talk today."  An early A.A. sponsor of mine.