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For me, there is a direct coupling of the Tenth Step and Step Two. The more sanity, the quicker the admission that I am wrong. It is much easier today to get rid of an overreaction at the thought level before it becomes a spoken word and then a physical act. “Now I can see that sanity is steadily being restored to me so that I can use the other Steps to greater advantage.”

“There will be love and laughter and a delicious sense of well-being down deep inside if you will abandon yourself to the business of recovery -- not just recovery from the disease of active alcoholism, but deeper than that, recovery from a former self.”

“It seems the more I give to Alcoholics Anonymous, the better my life gets.”

“‘Let us always love the best in others -- and never fear their worst.’”

“I’m free to be the person I’ve always wanted to be, but never before had the courage to become.”

“I need grace to recover happily, to be comfortable in my sobriety, and to be able to help others do the same.”

“What profiteth it a man if he has gained sobriety and lost his sense of humor?”

“Our personal ambitions will have to be set aside every time they conflict with the safety or the effectiveness of our Fellowship ... We must sometimes love our Society more than ourselves.”

“I recalled the part of chapter five that says ‘no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.’ And that God could and would, if he were sought. This became my answer. “I sent God into those dark places within my subconscious. It was there I seemed to store painful memories, those of my childhood in an alcoholic home, and those of my own alcoholism and drug abuse ‘adventures.’ I asked my Higher Power to take his healing light into those painful areas of my subconscious that seemed to be carefully and deeply buried.”