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

Bill W.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
BILL W.

Honesty Tolerance Way
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher
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
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
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
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
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
If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.
BILL W.

Heart Person Probably Teacher Thank
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.

Alcoholic Exception Loneliness
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
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
BILL W.

Meditation Prayer Rewards
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
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
In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
BILL W.

Humility Inspirational Recovery
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.

Dark Dawn Reality
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

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