π How It Works, Pages 63-65 (Michael K.)
In episode #129, Michael continues the Big Book Awakening series by reading from Chapter 5, How It Works, pages 63-65.
**"Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions." **βAlcoholics Anonymous (p. 63)