In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
BILL W.We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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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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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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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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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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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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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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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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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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