Wednesday, 16 September 2015

As Bill Sees It #essentialsofrec #Inventory #Self-examination

16
September
Beneath the Surface, p.258


Some will object to many of the questions that should be answered in a moral inventory, because they think their own character defects have not been so glaring. To these, it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned with.

Because our surface record hasn’t looked too bad, we have frequently been abashed to find that this is so simply because we have buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification. Those were the defects that finally ambushed us into alcoholism and misery.

12 & 12, pp. 53-54
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