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.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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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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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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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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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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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 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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Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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