The body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his mind.
Any picture of the alcoholic which leaves out this physical factor is incomplete.
The phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
Unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope for his recovery.
More than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change.
They were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.
This phenomenon may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity.
The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence.
We felt that his only hope would be through what we then called "moral psychology".
Why don't you choose your own conception of God?
When all other measures failed work with another alcoholic would save the day.
...warped lives of blameless children.
Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind rather than in his body.
Plain insanity... lack of proportion.
Unbearable mental and physical suffering.
The program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window.
... spiritual principles would solve all my problems.
Lack of power that was our dilemma.
We were making heavy going of life.
Did not these feelings, after all, determine the course of our existence?
We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.
Who are you to say there is no God?