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

Bill W.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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Attitude Effort Miracle
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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Around Choosing Happen Happening Responsibility
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.
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Adventure Men Moving
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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Alcohol Believe Sanity
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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Dark Dawn Reality
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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Admit Patience People Self Wise
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Actors Double Life People
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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Movement Pupils Teacher
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
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Grace Spiritual Suffering
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
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
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Alcoholics Spiritual Vision
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.
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Ourselves Perfection Possible Reasonable Simply
In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
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Humility Inspirational Recovery
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

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

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