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1. “ … and became willing to make amends to them all.”TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77
One of the key words in the Eighth Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. It is a list of all persons I have harmed.
2. We have an allergy to alcohol. The action of alcohol on chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy. We allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all. We cannot be reconciled to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience an entire psychic change. Once this psychic change has occurred, we who seemed doomed, we who had so many problems that we despaired of ever solving them, find ourselves able to control our desire for alcohol.” ~Twenty-Four Hours A Day
3. This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. But if a willing start is made, then the greatest advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away. ~ 12×12 pg. 78
4. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. –Helen Keller