My motivation to stop?....I was beaten and broken and found myself placed in a rehab. They gave me a Big Book there and I read this part...It was me....I was beaten into reasonableness...And willing to try anything.
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect alcohol was a great persuader. It finally beat us into a state of reasonableness. Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as some of us were.
bb pg 48