I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
BILL W.How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
More Bill W. Quotes
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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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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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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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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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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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.
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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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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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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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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.
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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.