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“We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.”
“We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 6 · Into ActionWhere it comes from
The first of the Promises in Chapter 6 — the list of what begins arriving before the amends are even half done.
Today’s reflectionFitting for the Fourth: the freedom promised here isn’t freedom to do anything — we had that, and it nearly killed us. It’s freedom from. From the obsession, the hiding, the morning inventory of damage. Independence Day for an alcoholic isn’t the day all the rules disappeared; it’s the day the dictator did. Celebrate accordingly. And if today’s parties are hard, find a meeting — many groups run extra ones on holidays for exactly this reason.
Read the original passage · Into Action, 1939 →The Promises · FreedomQuote from the 1939 first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (public domain). Reflection original to albanysober.com. This site is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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