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.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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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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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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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 have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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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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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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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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