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.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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.
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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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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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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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Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening.
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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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