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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

Bill W.

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening.
BILL W.

Awakening Sobriety Spiritual
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.

Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: ‘Who am I?’ . . . ‘Where am I?’ . . . ‘Whence do I go?’ The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
BILL W.

Asking End Enlightenment Simplicity
I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
BILL W.

Dimension Happiness Incredibly Passes Wonderful
I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
BILL W.

Creator Judge Others Review
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
BILL W.

Esteem Guilt Pride Self
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.

Alcohol Believe Humor
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.

Dark Dawn Reality
If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
BILL W.

Awakening New One Received Work
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
BILL W.

Ignorance Pain Years
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
BILL W.

Ambition Grace Profound
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Calamity Crush Made
In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
BILL W.

Humility Inspirational Recovery
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Enemy Permanent Temporary
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
BILL W.

Attitude Effort Miracle
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
BILL W.

Admit Patience People Self Wise

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