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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

Bill W.

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.
BILL W.

Ambition Grace Profound
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
BILL W.

Brain Race Sunshine
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.

Awakening New One Received Work
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.

Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
BILL W.

Enemy Permanent Temporary
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
BILL W.

Double Extreme Perfection Reflection Relative Somewhere
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
BILL W.

Choices Inspirational Recovery
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.
BILL W.

Asking End Enlightenment Simplicity
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.

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

Accept Experience Members Reject
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher
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.
BILL W.

Alcohol Believe Sanity
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
BILL W.

Grace Spiritual Suffering
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.
BILL W.

Heart Person Probably Teacher Thank
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
BILL W.

Calamity Crush Made
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
BILL W.

Heart Responsibility Teacher

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

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