THE ADDICT'S MIND DEFIES ALL REASON -
"Many of us felt
that insanity was
too harsh a word to
describe our condition.
However, if we take a real-
istic look at our active ad-
diction, we'll see that we
have been anything but
sane. For the most part,
our perceptions were
not based in real-
ity." (The Basic
ext, p. 13)
DRINK, RINSE, REPEAT-
" ... inevitably [we] ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. The insane idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened." (The Big Book, p. 37)
"Insanity: doing
the same thing over
and over again and ex-
pecting different results."
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German physicist
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself, like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.