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Anger
"Then
the miracle happened - to me! It isn't always so sudden with everyone,
but I ran into a personal crisis which filled me with a raging and
righteous anger. And as I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and
drunk and show them, my eye caught a sentence to the book lying open on
my bed. 'We cannot live with anger.' The walls crumpled - and the
light streamed in. I wasn't trapped. I wasn't helpless. I was free,
and I didn't have to drink to 'show them.' This wasn't 'religion' -
this was freedom! Freedom from anger and fear, freedom to know happiness and love."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 228
Thought to Consider . . .
Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.
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Beginning
from: "Two alcoholics meet"
"I
have placed both operation and myself in God's hands. I'm going to do
what it takes to get sober and stay that way. Just before they
stopped [at the hospital, where Dr. Bob was to perform surgery], Bill,
who also had his practical side, gave him a bottle of beer . . . The bottle
of beer Bill gave him that morning was the last drink he [Dr. Bob] ever
had. Although arguments have been and will be made for other
significant occasions in A.A. history, it is generally agreed that
Alcoholics Anonymous began there, in Akron, on that date: June 10, 1935."