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Whenever a mind is simple, it is able to receive divine wisdom. ∼Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many 12-step slogans and acronyms are not very politically correct like KISS—Keep It Simple Stupid. This can offend newcomers because they think they are being called “stupid.” At a time when experts are frantic to build our self-esteem, this sounds inappropriate. But our recovery is based on facts, not pop psychology, and we find that the slogans are often wisdom written in shorthand. After all, how smart is it to analyze, justify, and rationalize ourselves into paralysis? That is just what happens when we get so smart that we begin to read between the lines, looking for what is really meant, rather than the simple words on the page. The politically correct can tweak the KISS acronym to: “Keep It Simple Smarty” or “Sweetheart” or “Keep It Super Simple.” Yet, no matter how we say it, if we are not keeping it simple, then we are pretty stupid!

I keep it simple and surrender.

It was pop psychology time, and I didn't have the foggiest notion of what was going on. I was dazed and confused, a walking contradiction —"partly truth and partly fiction," as I think a songwriter once wrote.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 357