Friday, August 15, 2008

Emotional Sobriety

If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand.

Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling demands.

Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to Twelfth Step ourselves and others into emotional sobriety. . . Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression.

I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

Bill W., January 1958

The Language of the Heart, p. 238

 

The peaks and valleys of my life have
become gentle rolling hills.

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