To stay sober is to cease fighting anything and everything. We internalize anger in the form of a resentment, which is basically an inner dialogue of how you are going to fight someone or something.
“I’m gonna kill that guy/girl/dude/chick”.
How many times have you said that to yourself? While we don’t intend to follow through on our actions (hopefully), even harboring these thoughts leads to inner disturbance and turmoil. Do you really want or need this? Quit fighting.
Pg. 84 – 85 Ceased fighting
“And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone – even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality – safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.”