destiny's kisses and dope-slaps — "almost nothing important that ever happens…"
almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
Context
The AA doctrine of powerlessness lifted out of the meeting and applied to Orin's whole accidental career: the program's least fashionable, most correct claim — that you engineer almost nothing that matters — narrated straight, "trite but correct," as the frame for a life that turned on a blocked punt. The Program's epistemology stated by the book in its own voice, outside any meeting.