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.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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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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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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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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 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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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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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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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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