Will Self Knowledge keep you sober?

The actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly any exception,
will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.
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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.
page 26 Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION

He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic.
Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside
in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk!
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I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.
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Surely this was the answer -- self-knowledge.
page 7 Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY

He was positive that this humiliating experience,
plus the knowledge he had acquired,
would keep him sober the rest of his life.
Self-knowledge would fix it.
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