If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
BILL W.Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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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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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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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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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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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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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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