The long timer offered some unsolicited advice to the newcomer, “Just attending and not participating in AA is akin to having clay on a potter’s wheel and not turning it.”
If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’ re trying to help a participant in the process.
— John Stahl-Wert
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me. Perhaps I could help some of them. They in turn might work with others.
— Page 14 Alcoholics Anonymous
