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

Bill W.

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
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
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Double Extreme Perfection Reflection Relative Somewhere
No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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Accept Experience Members Reject
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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Decision Experience Help Lying Real Wisdom
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.

Movement Pupils Teacher
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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Brimming Emotion Gratitude Outgoing
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
BILL W.

Heart Responsibility Teacher
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
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
I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
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Creator Judge Others Review
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
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
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
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People
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

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

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