Russell Brand

God have mercy.

So when it's such a great instruction, such great preparation, because when you are stripped of the thing that you're clinging to, when you have to let go of that false hand, you are confronted with your own fallibility, your own desperation and your own brokenness like never before.

Now, but that's not the end of the story with the 12 steps.

The 12 steps says, right, one, powerless over drugs and alcohol, life's unmanageable, quit it.

Two, believe it's possible.

came to believe that the power greater than yourself could restore you to sanity.

So you open your mind to the idea that there's another way.

Now people secularize that necessarily because it's the spirituality, a power greater than yourself is so evident and obvious.

And we live in such sort of, sometimes I think such dead and atheistic times that people have to say, well, look,

Bob and Dave and Carol, they're not drinking and they were worse than you.

What, you think they're lying?

Yeah, I do think they're lying actually.

And then you overcome that and you see, oh my word, no, they're not lying.

They did it.

Three, made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God as I understood it, as you understand God.

Don't even try and push God down your throat or foist an idea of God upon you.

But that's a pretty big proposition, hand your will and your life over to the care of God.

I mean, that's a real letting go that I'm still trying to work in my own way now with my new understanding and deepening understanding in the sort of richer theology that the 12 steps provide a kind of a formative training wills version of actually.

Now, step four is an inventory process where you literally go through your life and go,

What's every resentment you've ever had?