Within the pages of this text are the stories of eight men who have chosen a particular discipline, or guiding principles, to live their life by. Although these stories personify the life experience of addiction and recovery from the disease of alcoholism, they moreso speak to the triumph of personal transformation. The thesis of this text arose from my own experiences with addiction; a spark of consciousness where it became evident that a knowledge of the root cause of my malady was utterly insufficient. But this is not a phenomena that is unique to addiction; it is an experience grounded in...