SURRENDER AND SELF-EXAMINATION: My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. Thus I think it can work out with emotional sobriety. If we…
“A MEASURE OF HUMILITY”: In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought…
PRIDE: For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater…
A NOURISHING INGREDIENT: Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. – Twelve…
HUMILITY IS A GIFT: As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a…