Put Aside Anger

AA Thought for Today

It seemed to me once that the great trick in learning to live the AA way of life was to put aside anger. I think now that it's rather a matter of learning to love–and serve. I dimly see these days that there is no freedom from a messy inner landscape of greeds and compulsions until somehow, someway, we are focussed on the miraculous fact that we are given the world and all the people in't to love.

-- The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety, page 86