May 21

May 21 – AM

Page 26, There Is A Solution, Chapter 2

A certain American business man had ability, good sense, and high character.  For years he had floundered from one sanitarium to another.  He had consulted the best known American psychiatrists.  Then he had gone to Europe, placing himself in the care of celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) who prescribed for him.  Though experience had made him skeptical, he finished his treatment with unusual confidence.  His physical and mental condition were unusually good.  Above all, he believed he had acquired such a profound knowledge of the inner workings of his mind and its hidden springs that relapse was unthinkable.  Nevertheless, he was drunk in a short time.  More baffling still, he could give himself no satisfactory explanation for his fall.

May 21 – PM

Page 133, The Family Afterward, Chapter 9

Now about health:  A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.  We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.  We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health.  But we have seen remarkable transformations in our bodies.  Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.