“We found the Great Reality deep down within us.” (Page 55, Big Book)
One could tour Oxford, view the colleges, the libraries, the lecture halls, the administrative buildings, the chapels, and ask, ‘But where is the university?’ This would be what Gilbert Ryle calls a category error: the university is an abstraction that represents the aggregate of all of these things and their internal relations. The university is not one further aspect of the list starting with colleges and chapels but the whole shooting match that includes those.
Similarly, the ‘spiritual angle’ of AA (Page 228, Big Book) is not a further item on a list that includes reading, written step work, AA meetings, meetings with sponsors, phone calls, etc. but is in a different category. God is the power operating through all of these things; God suffuses every aspect of AA.
Where is God in AA? God is not a component but an infiltrating force and flavour of the whole experience.
Similarly, the AA programme is not something that I add to the list of things to do but the entire basis, method, and procedure for doing all things, as well as providing specific things to do in addition to my ordinary tasks.