March 9, 2023
“Now that we no longer patronize bars and bordellos; now that we bring home the pay checks; now that we are so very active in AA; and now that people congratulate us on these signs of progress — well, we naturally proceed to congratulate ourselves. Yet we may not be within hailing distance of humility. Meaning well, yet doing badly, how often have I said or thought, ‘I am right and you are wrong,’ ‘My plan is correct and yours is faulty,’ ‘Thank God your sins are not my sins,’ ‘You are hurting AA and I’m going to stop you cold,’ ‘I have God’s guidance, so He is on my side.’ And so on, indefinitely.
The alarming thing about such pride-blindness is the ease with which it is justified.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1961, “Humility for Today,” The Language of the Heart
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