No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
BILL W.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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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
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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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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I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
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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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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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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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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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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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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