"I take it in, stuff it down and try to figure it out."
"I take it in, stuff it down and try to figure it out."
"Why do I work this Program? Because it works!"
"I came into Al-Anon a plowed field...Who I thought I was had been plowed under."
"We had skid row at home."
"I got real good at playing games."
"mean Irish drunks"
"Everything that came up we just made jokes about it."
"Jesus-Others-Yourself"
"It was as though somebody gave me a set of skis and a parker with a hood and gloves and snow goggles and then dropped me in the desert."
"Do I tell it the way I remember it or do I tell it the way it happened?"
"Look for that in another which is untouched by the disease."
"Am I wasting God's Grace?"
"I am a sponge for other people's emotions."
"And elephants do what elephants do."
The Al-Anon spends half a life cleaning up after the elephant. Then the alcoholic comes into the rooms and laughs at the mess they made of "their" lives.
Detachment says in part,
"Elephants do what they do but not to poop on me...but I can love them right where they are..and I didn't have to fix him."
"I quit saying I was sorry so much because that is not my name."