“ I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober. ”
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
~ Alcoholics Anonymous
No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation some fact of my life unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.
