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April 1974

Frantic Improvement

We exchange one poison for another when our search for perfection becomes an obsession

POSSIBLY one of the most striking things that one encounters when taking a deeper-than-usual look at fellow AA members is that marked tendency to search. It can become obsessive. Anyhow, that's how it seems to me, at least among those who appear most earnest in their working of the program. "Extend yourself!" "Grow!" "Mature!" "Change!". . .Sometimes I wonder.

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