Surrender

"We surrender to win. On the face of it, surrendering certainly does not seem like winning. But it is in A.A. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit 'bottom' in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobriety which we could never accomplish before. We must, and we do, surrender in order to win."

1955

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AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, 2nd Edition, p. 341

Thought to Consider . . .

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you're going to do about it.

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