I was never unhappier. The A.A. Big Book has a passion for honesty as a key to sanity and sobriety. In one section, it ironically comments that blaming others and anger is a luxury that alcoholics cannot afford. You cannot indulge bitterness and finger-pointing and stay sober. The truth, of course, is that none of us can indulge self-centered blaming of others, and stay healthy.
Bitterness always eats the bitter person alive.
Letting go is to surrender to creative love. Letting go is to align ourselves with God s healing peace in our lives. Letting go is learning to stop and smell the coffee, enjoy the sunsets, rejoice in our children. Letting go is all about learning to slow down in our pressure-cooker world. Dr. Jones comments that the surrendered are quietly creative and actually produce twice as much as the unsurrendered with all their fussy activity.