Still Waters: Sobriety, Atonement, and Unfolding Enlightenment

by William Alexander

Book Overview

-- Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly, Hymns to an Unknown God, and Faces of the Enemy This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159285348X
• ISBN13: 9781592853489
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A Journey to find the 'it' that can not be named

Reading Still Waters was a journey that I'm grateful that I took. Early sobriety raised many questions for me. 12 Step programs raise seeming and often confusing contradictions. Alexander honestly and openly acknowledges his own struggles on what is a commonly traveled path. Still Waters has greatly enriched my own embryonic path. Alexander's narrative left room for me to pose my own questions and find some of my own answers. Still Waters is an important story in a body of literature on recovery and sobriety. Alexander's story here focuses on a solution rather than the problem. The text effectively marries wisdom from a variety of spiritual paths with the principles of AA and other 12 Step programs. I found that listening to Alexander's story, not only added to my understanding and experience of recovery, it also deepened my understanding of Buddhism and my meditation practice. Alexander's story of atonement was especially powerful for me. Atonement now for me is a way to move beyond a simple balance sheet of wrongs and harms amended to a hope to 'go beyond zero'.