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“We have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol.”
“We have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 6 · Into ActionWhere it comes from
From Chapter 6, describing the state members found themselves in after working the Steps — the fight ending not in victory but in release.
Today’s reflectionEarly sobriety can feel like white-knuckled combat — and then, somewhere along the way, the fight just ends. Not because we won, but because we stopped showing up to the war. Acceptance isn’t approval and it isn’t passivity; it’s putting down a rope you were never going to win the tug-of-war with. What are you still fighting that you could simply set down?
Read the original passage · Into Action, 1939 →AcceptanceQuote from the 1939 first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (public domain). Reflection original to houstonsober.com. This site is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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