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"IN MEMORY OF GEORGE C."
From, "More About Alcoholism:"
"... Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers
have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could
drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he would
control and enjoy his drinking is the greatest obsession of every
abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing.
Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
"We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves
that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The
delusion that we are like other people ... has to be smashed.
"We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to
control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers
control."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 3d ed: 30
From, "A Flower of the South:"
"... I wish I could tell you how and why A.A. works, but I don't
know. I only know that it does -- if you desire it with your whole
heart and without reservation. I think that no one comes to A.A.
until he's tried everything else. As I grow in A.A., I realize that
a person with as much self-will as I had , as hard a head and as
diseased an ego, had to try everthing that I could think of, butting
my head against every stone wall before I was ready to come in. The
only thing I have really to offer you is my own story, telling you
just what sort of a drunk I was."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 3d ed: 384
From, "Staying Away From the First Drink:"
"Instead of trying to figure out how many we could
handle -- four? -- six? -- a dozen? -- we remember,
`Just don't pick up that first drink.' It is so much
simpler. The habit of thinking this way has helped
hundreds of thousands of us stay sober for years."
Living Sober: 5
