But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow ‘take it easy?’ That’s what I want to know. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26
I was never known for my patience. How many times have I asked, “Why should I wait, when I can have it all right now?” Indeed, when I was first presented the Twelve Steps, I was like the proverbial “kid in a candy store.” I couldn’t wait to get to Step Twelve; it was surely just a few months’ work, or so I thought! I realize now that living the Twelve Steps of A.A. is a lifelong undertaking.
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The false idea,the untrue thought of I/ME/SELF we label ego, is followed by equally false assumptions that living and being in sobriety is just another task; work; job; struggle. In fact, such a perception only increases the power of that false idea of the separated self. By daily joining with fellow alcoholics as true partners, equals in living sober, helping each other to do the same, being so is effortlessly awakening to the indescribable energy and intelligence perpetually being revealed in that unity, that non-duality. Then the illusion of the false, separated self collapses, along with the untrue ideas of living and being in recovery as a task; work; struggle. Only then is there true freedom from the misery of the past in choiceless awareness of what is there, and what there is now.