“Celebrating his one-year cake, the celebrant recalled that arriving in AA barely sober was like being in the eye of the hurricane. All the terror and hopeless feelings stopped for the 90 minutes of the meeting.”
Maybe it’s his first time around. He doesn’t speak the language, He holds no currency, He is a foreign man … He looks around, He sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity…
— Paul Simon
When I had been in A.A. only a short while, an old timer told me something that has affected my life ever since. “A.A. does not teach us how to handle our drinking,” he said. “It teaches us how to handle sobriety.”
— Page 553 Alcoholics Anonymous
