AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy aa-alive.net)
February 6, 2024
Pride and Fear
So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every
newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride
and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself. Pride
says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that
pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 49
Thought to Ponder . . .
Swallowing my pride will not get me drunk.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = False Evidence Appearing Real.
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