rockhound
06-01-2004, 04:46 PM
"Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he tries to
help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he. This
is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does
not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And
then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he
has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received
anything or not. His own character may still be gravely defective, but
he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a
mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new
mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed."
- Alcoholics Anonymous
help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he. This
is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does
not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And
then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he
has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received
anything or not. His own character may still be gravely defective, but
he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a
mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new
mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed."
- Alcoholics Anonymous