Love opens us to freedom and to life. To be free and alive again, we must learn to love. To do that, we need to start seeing the difference between our selfishness and love — and learn to correct our course. Step Four teaches me how to recognise my selfishness, accept it, and realise that it is the root of all my problems. Thankfully, I don't stop there.
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We are made for living in relationships, in community. No one can live my life for me. But I can’t do it alone, either.
The Twelve Steps are a fight for life—a hard task we take on in desperation.
The need for a companion on this journey becomes especially clear at Step Four, when we look into our past and face our own shortcomings. Support of another human isn’t optional—it’s essential.
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