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Both read the Bible day and night,

But thou read’s black where I read white.

~William Blake

The old-timers’ experiences have left us a great legacy in recovery. They told us the Twelve Steps are a simple program for complicated people. It’s a simple program because the instructions are clear and concise. We’re complicated people because we have a peculiar knack for reading between the lines, and viewing ourselves as the exception to these simple suggestions. Because of this tendency, old-timers gave us these four questions by which we can learn to be true to our higher self:

1. Is it true or false?

2. How will it affect the other person?

3. Will it be part of the solution or part of the problem?

4. Is it right or wrong?

I make my C.D.A. program real simple.

I take the book out and read the black parts.

It's very simple - so simple that I almost didn't make it. But I had, and still have, today, a desire for a new way of life.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 143