| The Real Insanity
"But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. The insane idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened."
How does this mental phenomenon continue to handicap you in your daily affairs? Why do insane ideas win out?
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"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Wooden
Excerpts from Original Manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
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