Thursday 31 December 2015

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To Grow Up


Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for complete approval, utter security, and perfect romance — urges quite appropriate to age seventeen — prove to be an impossible way of life at forty-seven or fifty-seven.

Since A.A. began, I’ve taken huge wallops in all these areas because of my failure to grow up, emotionally and spiritually.

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As we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions. Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power all have to be tempered and redirected.

We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. We cannot place the cart before the horse, or we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first — then and only then do we have a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love.

~ 1. GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1958 ~
~ 2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 114 ~

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