How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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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.
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If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.
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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.
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there.
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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
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