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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.

Bill W.

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
No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
BILL W.

Accept Experience Members Reject
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
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.
BILL W.

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

Alcohol Believe Humor
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
BILL W.

Actors Double Life People
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
BILL W.

Grace Spiritual Suffering
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.
BILL W.

Adventure Men Moving
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.
BILL W.

Asking End Enlightenment Simplicity
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.

Dark Dawn Reality
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
BILL W.

Convince Desire Way
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
BILL W.

Meditation Prayer Rewards
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.

Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
BILL W.

Decision Passing Wisdom

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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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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