Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
BILL W.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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 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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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.
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In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
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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.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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