No Middle of the Road

In general man should walk in the middle of the road and stay away from the extremes. If one has fallen to an negative extreme, he needs to steer himself to the other extreme to rectify his course. The middle of the road will not be effective for him. - Maimonides

If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we has passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. - Big Book of AA page 25

Conduct which is folly - in the sense that it is lower than reason - ought to be transformed into conduct which is folly in the sense that it transcends reason. - Rabbi Yosef Yitschak Schneerson of Lubavitch.

Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. - Step Two

For more on this you can review the audio of the Step Two class