"Made a list
of all persons
we had harmed,
and became willing
to make amends
to them all."
(12 & 12, p.
166)
THE DILEMMA -
"Why, we cried,
shouldn't bygones
be bygones? Why do
we have to think of
these people at
all?" (12
& 12)
THE SOLUTION -
"Step Eight is the test of our newfound humility. Our purpose is to achieve freedom from the guilt that we have carried. We want to look the world in the eye with neither aggressiveness nor fear." (The Basic Text, p. 37)
"When you burn a bridge sometimes -- it doesn't matter if it's a significant player on a team, especially a significant player like Kobe -- you might say let bygones be bygones, (but) there's always that underlying, 'Oh, you talked about me.' Me personally, I don't think it'll work out. But who knows? Crazier things have happened."
- Robert Horry (1970 - ) U.S. Laker star basketball player
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself. Like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.
