Bill W. and many others discovered was that the core concept of the alcoholic was— Selfishness—self-centeredness! That…is the root of our troubles…. The alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot…. The need to escape the private prison of the narrow self is one of the themes that undergirds and finds expression in all the great religions of mankind. That human life has meaning, ultimate meaning, only as lived for others—or for an-Other—seems one way of understanding the deep unity as well as the profound variety of the human experience termed “religious.” Fundamental to all human
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