MUST LIBERTY LEAD TO ANARCHY -
"[No group
in recovery] can
compel another to
do anything; nobody
can be punished or ex-
pelled." "To many minds
all this liberty for the in-
dividual spells sheer an-
archy." "They see liber-
ty verging on license
... ." (12 & 12, pp.
129 - 130)
RECOGNIZING OUR POWERLESSNESS IN CHAOS, FREES UP OUR BETTER ANGELS -
"This freedom is
important; it protects
and encourages divers-
ity ... . In this autonomy,
each group develops a
character of its own."
(It Works, How
& Why, p.
117)
"The love of lib-
erty is the love of
others; the love of
power is the love
of ourselves."
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) English humanist / writer
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself. Like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.