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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.

Bill W.

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
BILL W.

Decision Passing Wisdom
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
BILL W.

Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
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
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
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
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.
BILL W.

Enemy Permanent Temporary
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.
BILL W.

Alcohol Believe Sanity
No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
BILL W.

Accept Experience Members Reject
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
BILL W.

Brimming Emotion Gratitude Outgoing
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
I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
BILL W.

Atheist Mean People
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
BILL W.

Actors Double Life People
Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
BILL W.

Around Choosing Happen Happening Responsibility
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
BILL W.

Heart Language Suffering

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