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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

Bill W.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.

Alcohol Believe Humor
I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
BILL W.

Creator Judge Others Review
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.
BILL W.

Awakening Sobriety Spiritual
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
BILL W.

Heart Language Suffering
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
BILL W.

Admit Patience People Self Wise
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
BILL W.

Brimming Emotion Gratitude Outgoing
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
BILL W.

Brain Race Sunshine
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.
BILL W.

Awakening New One Received Work
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
BILL W.

Double Extreme Perfection Reflection Relative Somewhere
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.
BILL W.

Ourselves Perfection Possible Reasonable Simply
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.
BILL W.

Decision Experience Help Lying Real Wisdom
We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
BILL W.

Individual Revolutionary Sobriety
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.
BILL W.

Dimension Happiness Incredibly Passes Wonderful
Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
BILL W.

Circles Men Simple
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
BILL W.

Decision Passing Wisdom
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher

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