How Free Do You Want to Be – Mark H.
About This Speaker Tape
Big Book Workshop - 2003
A man of deep sobriety reflects on the grueling liberating process of the fifth step and the absolute necessity of the ninth. He recounts a surreal three-day retreat in Chicago where he performed nine fifth steps in rapid succession—like a movie interviewing babysitters—and the terrifying leap of faith when his sponsor Don C. forced him to speak in front of hundreds of people while mid-inventory. The narrative shifts from the wreckage of forged expense accounts and a fourteen-year battle with the IRS to the quiet realization that he had robbed people of 'emotional security.' He argues that the spiritual life is not a theory but a course of action emphasizing that editing an amends list is a form of robbery that keeps a person chained to the past.
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