When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer,
the problem went away. From that moment on, I have not had a single
compulsion to drink. 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. 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.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until
I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept
life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to
concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as
on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book), 4th Edition, P. 417
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