Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - April

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April 18

Fellowship or Selfishness?

There is a constructive type of selfishness. When people indulge in self-help, they get nowhere. But by becoming part of a group that tries to help itself, people become better. Some say the Twelve Step programs are selfish. Perhaps so, but it is not a selfishness of the individual. It is a selfishness of the group-the entire fellowship because the entire fellowship becomes the self. How wonderful it would be if all humanity were selfish in this way: to stop thinking of ourselves as individuals, and think of all people as one great big self. What a wonderful world such a selfishness would produce!