“We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn’t apply to our human
problems this same readiness to change our point of view. We were having trouble with our personal
relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to
misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of
uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of
real help to other people – was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more
important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.
When we saw others solve their problems by a
simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the
power of God. Our ideas did not
work. But the God idea did.”Big Book, p. 52 (The "Bedevilments"
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