Spiritual Awakening Begins at Home

Real happiness is not dependent on external things--the pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with us in AA is the happiness that springs from inward thought and emotion and not just from staying physically dry. I believe we must cultivate our minds if we are to give quality to our sobriety and achieve real happiness. We must furnish what mind we have with useful and interesting thoughts and ideas, for an empty mind grows bored and lonely and soon seeks an outlet for happiness in useless pleasures, ending up in a worse void than before.