STEP FOUR -
"Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves."
THE DILEMMA -
"Why work the
Fourth Step? After
all, we've been able
to stay clean so
far." (It Works
How & Why,
p. 26)
THE SOLUTION -
"Nearly every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case of misdirected instinct." "Powerfully, blindly, many times subtly, they drive us, dominate us, and insist upon ruling our lives." "When that happens, our great natural assets, the instincts, have turned into physical and mental liabilities." (12 & 12, p. 42)
"The ideal con-
dition would be, I
admit, that men should
be right by instinct; But
since we are all likely to
go astray, the reason-
able thing is to learn
from those who
can teach."
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC) Greek tragic dramatist
HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself, like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.