Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
Interpretation
Being honest leads to clarity and sobriety, while tolerance helps maintain it.
This quote by Bill W. emphasizes the importance of honesty in achieving personal clarity and sobriety, suggesting that recognition of one's true self is essential for recovery or personal growth. However, it also highlights that maintaining this state requires continuous tolerance, both for oneself and for others, indicating that patience and understanding are crucial in the journey towards a healthier mindset.
In practice
During a support group meeting, a member could say this quote to emphasize the importance of honesty in recovery.
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.
Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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