Sunday, 4 January 2015

Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous #essentialsofrecovery.com #Recovery #BigBook #Acceptance

 4
January

ACCEPTANCE WAS THE ANSWER


– The physician wasn’t hooked, he thought–he just prescribed drugs medically indicated for his many ailments. Acceptance was his key to liberation.

I can do the same thing with an A.A. meeting. The more I focus my mind on its defects–late start, long drunkalogs, cigarette smoke–the worse the meeting becomes. But when I try to see what I can add to the meeting, rather than what I can get out of it, and when I focus my mind on what’s good about it, rather than what’s wrong with it, the meeting keeps getting better and better. When I focus on what’s good today, I have a good day, and when I focus on what’s bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on a problem, the problem increases; if I focus on the answer, the answer increases.

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