the truth's irresistible attraction
The truth has a kind of irresistible unconscious attraction at meetings, no matter what the color or fellowship.
Context
The doctrine of why the rooms work stated flat: the truth exerts an involuntary pull at meetings, and even Denial Aisle and the standing men get drawn into a speaker who has stopped posturing and started telling it. The Program's whole mechanism is here — not persuasion but the magnetism of an actually-broken person telling an actually-true story, the one thing the too-cool and the barely-arrived cannot look away from.