When AA suggests a fearless moral inventory,
it must seem to every newcomer
that more is being asked of him than he can do.
Both his pride and his fear beat him back
every time he tries to look within himself.
Pride says, "You need not pass this way,"
and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
But the testimony of AA's
who have really tried a moral inventory
is that pride and fear of this sort
turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
Let the lunatics out of the attic.
F E A R = Face Everything And Recover.