On growing up...
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for complete approval, utter security, and perfect romance--urges quite appropriate to age seventeen--prove to be an impossible way of life at forty-seven or fifty-seven. Since AA began I've taken huge wallops in all these areas because of my failure to grow up, emotionally and spiritually.
Letter from Bill Wilson
Founder of AA
As we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions. Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power all have to be tempered and redirected. We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. We cannot place the cart before the horse, or we shall be pulled backward into disilllusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first--then and only then do we hava a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love.
As Bill Sees It
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for complete approval, utter security, and perfect romance--urges quite appropriate to age seventeen--prove to be an impossible way of life at forty-seven or fifty-seven. Since AA began I've taken huge wallops in all these areas because of my failure to grow up, emotionally and spiritually.
Letter from Bill Wilson
Founder of AA
As we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions. Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power all have to be tempered and redirected. We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. We cannot place the cart before the horse, or we shall be pulled backward into disilllusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first--then and only then do we hava a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love.
As Bill Sees It
