We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable. All spiritual traditions have a wisdom literature. Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritual tradition. Its influence and spread in the present century is going to depend on how well each generation of those in recovery assimilate and interiorize the basic wisdom that is enshrined in the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions. In this major work, Father Thomas Keating reflects on the wisdom and legacy of the Alcoholics.