“At the hospital I was separated from alcohol for the last time.” (Page 13, Big Book)
“Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.” (Page 55, Big Book)
“6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” (Page 59, Big Book)
“Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. … And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid.” (Page 63, Big Book)
“We ask Him to remove our fear” (Page 68, Big Book)
“We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him.” (Page 71, Big Book)
“Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? … I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.” (Page 76, Big Book)
“Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them.” (Page 84, Big Book)
“We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed.” (Page 85, Big Book)
“God has either removed your husband’s liquor problem or He has not.” (Page 120, Big Book)
“Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.” (Page 86, Big Book)
“the things which matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them” (Page 161, Big Book)
“Job or no job—wife or no wife—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.” (Page 98, Big Book)
Someone said that the opposite of addiction is connection.
I’d say that the problem of addiction is entanglement with substances, behaviours, self, other people, and the material world, and the answer is detachment from all of these things, in order rely instead and solely on God.
The opposite of addiction is detachment.