Quotes - Step Three

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Chapter 3

Page 37 to 38

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Therefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves
fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal en-
counter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered

Page 38

enough under its weight to be willing to look for some-
thing better. So it is by circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted de-
feat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want
to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a
Higher Power.