Instead of pretending to be perfectionists ... we are content if we are making progress. The main thing is to be growing. We realize that perfectionism is only a result of false pride and an excuse to save our faces. [As addicts] we are willing to make mistakes and to stumble, provided we are always stumbling forward. We are not so interested in what we are as in what we are becoming. We are on the way, not at the goal. And we will be on the way as long as we live. No [addict] has ever "arrived." But we are getting better.
--"Twenty-Four Hours a Day," November 24th (Hazelden)
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