When I was drinking, I always welcomed hearing of others’ failures in life. It helped me to justify my failures. Fortunately, it eventually helped me to examine and accept my own shortcomings. The truth will do that for you, if you are open to it.
Once, ina while You get shown the light In the strangest of places If you look at it right
— Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter
Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened?
— Page 67 Alcoholics Anonymous
