May 17, 2023
“My self-analysis has frequently been faulty. Sometimes I’ve failed to share my defects with the right people; at other times, I’ve confessed their defects, rather than my own; and at still other times, my confession of defects has been more in the nature of loud complaints about my circumstances and my problems.
Nevertheless, I think I’ve usually been able to make a fairly thorough and searching job of finding and admitting my personal defects … Yet this pretty well-ventilated condition is nothing for self-congratulation. Long ago I was lucky enough to see that I’d have to keep up my self-analysis or else blow my top completely. Though driven by stark necessity, this continuous self-revelation — to myself and to others — was rough medicine to take. But years of repetition has made this job far easier.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1958, “Take Step Eleven,” The Language of the Heart
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