Extracts:
“Here's
why the program works, no matter what critics say: It's really about
listening, living, spirituality and joy”
“I’m
beginning to think that the main proof that Alcoholics Anonymous is,
as its members claim, “a spiritual program,” is that it is
attacked so often and so viciously. These attacks usually come from
people who are trying to sell something – books
or drying-out programs, mostly. What troubles them seems to
be that AA, like all genuinely spiritual realities, is free. “
“If there is one thing
that I hope I have learned from my years of study of the story of the
program and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, it is the
importance of listening. If there is one thing I would
urge on anyone who hopes to be caring and loving and wise, it is
to listen.
Ernest Kurtz (author of Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Source: Salon
Cheers
The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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