What are the biggest benefits or gifts of sobriety?

The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships

But every time I was on the verge of quitting, every time I made peace with the decision to quit, to say goodbye to my “tramily” and wish them well and walk away and find some feather bed and be done with it, I’d reach the next shelter just as the woods were growing rosy with dusk, and somebody on the same journey would be building a campfire, the

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