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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Bill W.

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
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
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
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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Movement Pupils Teacher
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
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
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
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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Esteem Guilt Pride Self
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Calamity Crush Made
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
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
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People
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
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
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
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

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