TOPICS 9/5/25
*DAILY REFLECTIONS*
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 83
The only amends I can make to those untraceable individuals, the only “changes for the better” I can offer, are indirect amends made to other people, whose paths briefly cross mine. Courtesy and kindness, regularly practiced, help me to live in emotional balance, at peace with myself.
*MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM BB pg. 39*
The actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.
*HOW IT WORKS BB pg. 64*
Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.
*THEY STOPPED IN TIME BB pg. 386*
Only truth being beaten downby my own misery would I have ever accepted the word “alcoholic” as applied to myself. I learned alcoholism is irreversible and fatal. And I know somewhere along the line I had lost the power to stop drinking.