After complaining to my grand sponsor about my day, he asked if I had prayed. Next, he asked if I’d called my sponsor. He then passed on some A.A. wisdom, “You can’t rely on yesterday’s shower to keep you clean today.”
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it.
— Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
— Page 86 Alcoholics Anonymous
