Sublime

if I stopped drinking, just for a while, maybe I could get a handle on things and then I could drink again.

With prayer I say I am willing to be helped.

Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for complete approval, utter security, and perfect romance—urges quite appropriate to age seventeen—prove to be an impossible way of life at forty-seven or fifty-seven.

“Indeed, that was the essence of A.A. itself: trouble accepted, trouble squarely faced with calm courage, trouble lessened and often transcended. This was the A.A. story, and we became a part of it. Such demonstrations became our stock in trade for the next sufferer.” LETTER, 1966

We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.

pain has been the price of admission into a new life.

False Self – The addicted or codependent self.

had to be confidential, if he wished.

What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.