"Let's examine for a moment this idea of dependence at the level of
everyday living. In this area it is startling to discover how dependent
we really are, and how unconscious of that dependence. Every modern
house has electric wiring carrying power and light to its interior. We
are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will
ever cut off the supply of current. By so accepting our dependence upon
this marvel of science, we find ourselves more independent personally.
Not only are we more independent, we are even more comfortable and
secure. Power flows just where it is needed. Silently and surely,
electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our
simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too. Ask the polio
sufferer confined to an iron lung who depends with complete trust upon
a motor to keep the breath of life in him." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Three, pg. 36)