Quote from Cool Water

Cool Water: Alcoholism, Mindfulness, and Ordinary Recovery 

by William Alexander

Shambhala Publications, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997           145 pp.

Ordinary recovery is . . . not complicated: not special. Any addict, like so many of his brothers and sisters in the larger world, lives a life of rapture and illusion. Ordinary Recovery is about waking up to what is real. When you see what is right before your eyes, you are healed. The way to the healing moment is through paying attention: Pay attention; the medicine is right before you all the time. You are enlightened by the entire phenomenal universe, and the price is "not less than everything.” (pp. 3-4)

-- quote submitted by Shirley C.