I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
BILL W.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.
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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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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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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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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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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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 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.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.