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Random Quote - Freedom through Acceptance

We admitted we couldn't lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun.
For most of us, this pair of acceptances had required a lot of exertion to achieve. Our whole treasured a lot of exertion to achieve. Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with sheer will power; it came instead as the result of developing the willingness to accept these new facts of living.
We neither ran nor fought. But accept we did. And then we began to be free.

GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962

I sure as hell couldn't lick alcohol with my remaining resources. I was insane, restless, irritable, discontent, and powerless.

"Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how to find this Power?

Well, that's exactly what this book is about. It's main object is to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve you problem."

Alcoholics Anonymous - Chapter 4, Page 45