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“The Big Book of AA,” Jamison notes, “was initially called The Way Out. Out of what? Not just drinking, but the claustrophobic crawl space of the self.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
Maggie Nelson • The Red Parts
“The Big Book of AA,” Jamison notes, “was initially called The Way Out. Out of what? Not just drinking, but the claustrophobic crawl space of the self.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust
Alcoholics Anonymous World Service Inc. • Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior
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As Leslie Jamison notes, at the heart of recovery is meeting, communion. “The meeting itself,” she recalls, “was just a bunch of strangers gathered around a huge wooden table, past a kitchen tracked with footprints, old linoleum curling upward at the edges of the room. People smiled like they were glad to see me, almost like they’d been expecting m
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Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: 'A candid, darkly funny book' New York Times
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