“Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.” (Page 86, Big Book)
The brain is like a library of thoughts.
I am the library user.
The librarian, when something happens, presents me with thoughts, as a librarian might, books.
I am not obliged to check out the books.
I might check out the books, or I might not check out the books, or I might ask for different books.
The Steps do restock the library to an extent.
But the process is not completable.
The answer is not, therefore, to strip the library of all unhelpful books, though some of this helps.
The answer is to acquire and retain agency over the checking out of books.