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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.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
BILL W.

Esteem Guilt Pride Self
Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
BILL W.

Around Choosing Happen Happening Responsibility
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.
BILL W.

Ambition Grace Profound
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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Convince Desire Way
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.

Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
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
BILL W.

Ignorance Pain Years
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
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
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
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
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
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
BILL W.

Decision Passing Wisdom
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
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
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

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