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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

Bill W.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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Alcohol Believe Humor
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People
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
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
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
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
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Enemy Permanent Temporary
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.
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Awakening New One Received Work
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
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
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
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
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
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 will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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Attitude Effort Miracle

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