“I’m not really happy to be in A.A.” the newbee told her sponsor. “Try to explore and focus on all that you are grateful for in sobriety.” she was told.
What is the connection between gratitude and happiness? It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it is gratefulness that makes us happy. When something of true value to us is given us - we haven’t earned it - it is just a gift, gratefulness spontaneously rises in our hearts. Then our happiness follows.
— David Steindt-Rast
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. […] so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
— Page 85 Alcoholics Anonymous
