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.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.
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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.
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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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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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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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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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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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