Moments of perception
can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity,
as I have excellent reason to know.
Roots of reality,
supplanting the neurotic underbrush,
will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces
which would destroy us,
or which we would use to destroy ourselves.
- Bill W., Letter, 1949.
The hardest thing in life
is letting go of what you thought was real.
S O B E R = Son Of a Basket, Everything's Real.