ACCEPTANCE

“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.”

• Who cares to admit complete defeat?
  • “It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand; we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us.”
• Admission of powerlessness is the first step in liberation.
  • “Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be the firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.”
• Relation of humility to sobriety.
  • “The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole society has sprung and flowered.”
• Mental obsession plus physical allergy.
  • “We were the victims of a mental obsession so powerful that no amount of human will power could break it.”
• Why must every A.A. hit bottom.
  • “We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.”

Light Bulb Moments