Big Book - Alcoholics Anonymous -ACCEPTANCE WAS THE ANSWER - p. 419

- The physician wasn’t hooked, he thought–he just prescribed drugs medically indicated for his many ailments. Acceptance was his key to liberation. Today Max and I try to communicate what we feel rather than what we think. We used to argue about our differing ideas, but we can’t argue about our feelings. I can tell her she ought not to think a certain way, but I certainly can’t take away her right to feel however she does feel. When we deal in feelings, we tend to come to know ourselves and each other much better.

Big Book - Alcoholics Anonymous -ACCEPTANCE WAS THE ANSWER - p. 419