Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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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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.
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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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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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.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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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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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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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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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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