Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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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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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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 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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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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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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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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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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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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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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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