THE PROFESSOR AND THE PARADOX
4. We DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or one's life to find it". When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of life. As our shortcomings are removed, one life of us dies, and another life of us lives. We in A.A. die to live.