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Acceptance
from
p. 449 of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Big Book
of AA
And
acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person,
place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable
to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that
person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly
the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing,
absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake.
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms,
I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much
on what needs to be changed in the world as on what
needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
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