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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.

Bill W.

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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Individual Revolutionary Sobriety
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Honesty Tolerance Way
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
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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Double Extreme Perfection Reflection Relative Somewhere
Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
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Around Choosing Happen Happening Responsibility
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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Movement Pupils Teacher
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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Brain Race Sunshine
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
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Calamity Crush Made
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
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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Meditation Prayer Rewards
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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Humility Inspirational Recovery
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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Adventure Men Moving
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
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Grace Spiritual Suffering
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
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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Ourselves Perfection Possible Reasonable Simply
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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Heart Person Probably Teacher Thank
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
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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Alcohol Believe Humor
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.
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Atheist Mean People
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Enemy Permanent Temporary
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
BILL W.

Heart Responsibility Teacher
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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Decision Passing Wisdom
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
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People

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