Fire-water
will rob you of your vision. Sitting
Bull Lakota No
other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the
rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to
resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as
going human concerns is complete. Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 21 The
tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us; first we were smitten
by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an
allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in
the process.... In
A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow
and digest this unpalatable truth. Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 22 Under
the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the
fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as
open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We
stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from
us. Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 24 Grandfather help us stay on our vision path.
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