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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Bill W.

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
No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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Accept Experience Members Reject
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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Dark Dawn Reality
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
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
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
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 have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
BILL W.

Convince Desire Way
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
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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Movement Pupils Teacher
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.
BILL W.

Admit Patience People Self Wise
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
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
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Heart Responsibility Teacher
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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Creator Judge Others Review
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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Brimming Emotion Gratitude Outgoing

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

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