"It
has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism.
This is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive.
But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact
knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without
undergoing a profound personality change."
We
thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct
these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire
satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It
never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet
conditions, whatever they were.
As Bill Sees It
As Bill Sees It
1. LETTER, 1940
2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 47
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