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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

Bill W.

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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Ignorance Pain Years
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Honesty Tolerance Way
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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Convince Desire Way
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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Accept Experience Members Reject
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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Admit Patience People Self Wise
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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Asking End Enlightenment Simplicity
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
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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Alcohol Believe Sanity
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Calamity Crush Made
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Enemy Permanent Temporary
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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Heart Language Suffering
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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Decision Experience Help Lying Real Wisdom
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
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Ambition Grace Profound
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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Awakening Sobriety Spiritual
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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Brimming Emotion Gratitude Outgoing
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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Circles Men Simple

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