I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
BILL W.We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
More Bill W. Quotes
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God.
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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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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
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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 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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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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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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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 know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there.
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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