| The POWER of the 1st paragraph of Step 1
Who cares to admit complete defeat?
Practically no one, of course.
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.
It is truly awful to admit that glass in hand, I have warped my mind into such an obsession for destructive drinking/thinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from me.
What has helped me greatly is to look for the spiritual principles in recovery.
My experience has been, to learn APPLICATION OF THESE PRINCIPLES in the moment I'm in.
BTW, what unmanageable means to me: MY THOUGHT LIFE, SOBER.
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"A A's 12 Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in nature, which if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink/think and enable the sufferer to be happily & usefully whole"
Quote from the 12 X 12, not the BB
"Calmness is trust in action" |