The 11th step uses more religious language to express this attitude of emotional acceptance in dealing with alcoholism. The Stoics argued that it was irrational, a veritable recipe for neurosis, to have a strong desire to get or avoid external things insofar as they're beyond our direct control. We need to learn to do our own work by focusing more attention on what we can do rather than worrying about the feelings that fate throws at us.

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