“She had been coming to our meetings for two months. She wasn’t really convinced that she was hopeless. You could tell: no sponsor, no commitments… She was convinced - she had to get her court card signed.”
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?’
— H.G. Wells
…few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
— Page 24 Twelve & Twelve
