TWELVE STEPS
AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS
(From p. 60)
Somehow, being
alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person.
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our
willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. When we are honest
with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and
God.
The second difficulty is this: what comes to us alone may
be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking…
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We
take this Step because, when we are truly convinced that it works, we
understand that humility, forgiveness and understanding is a form of behavior
that extends into all areas of our lives. I found that I was always thinking of
myself foolishly and, to be honest, selfishness is still a powerful motivation
for taking responsibility for how I have behaved.
But this Step
infuses a certain amount of wisdom that causes me to think of others before I
go off on fear-based rampages, character assassination, envy, sexual predation
and so on. Once I see how much damage it caused others, and myself, I found that
this kind of selfishness no longer works and that a new sort of selfishness
does. As a result of precisely unloading where my life had taken such a
negative turn, I was surprised that I became at peace with myself. This is so in
spite of the all the normal and extraordinary challenges that have been
presented to me as I trudged… or sometimes skipped… along this path I'm on. It is
no longer a theory that sounds good to me but it has been spliced into how I
conduct myself in relationships of every sort.
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