Un amor suprem

Rothko 1968

Els dotze passos proposats per Bill Wilson i Bob Smith el 1935 per a deixar enrere les addiccions (van ser els fundadors d'Alcohòlics Anònims).

Sembla un bon ús de la referència a la divinitat en tasques pràctiques.

És bonic saber, tal com explica el suplement Culltura/s de La Vanguardia del 15.12.2018, que John Coltrane va fer servir aquests passos per a sortir del pou de la droga i que les seves darreres creacions discogràfiques (A love supreme, First Metitations, Om i Meditations) miren de reflectir aquest procés (a l'Spotify de merceirai hi trobareu una playlist amb el nom de John Coltrane que els aplega; no són peces fàcils, però hi ha en elles força creativa).

- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

- Made a list of persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.