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Bill W.

On May 8, 2010 By

Easy does it, first things first, do what you can. Believe me, I too have been through the wringer.

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Bill W.

On May 8, 2010 By

More than most people, I think, alcoholics want to know who they are, what this life is all about, whether they have a divine origin and an appointed destiny, and whether there is a system of cosmic justice and love.

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Bill W.

On May 8, 2010 By

We quoted doctors that alcoholism was more lethal than cancer; that it consisted of an obsession of the mind coupled to increasingly body sensitivity. These were our Twin Ogres of Madness and Death.

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Bill W.

On January 12, 2010 By

Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. This [...]

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Bill W.

On December 3, 2009 By

Since open-mindedness and experimentation are supposed to be the indispensable attributes of our ‘scientific’ civilization, it seems strange that so many scientists are reluctant to try out personally the hypothesis that God came first and man afterward. They prefer to believe that man is the chance product of evolution; that God, the Creator, does not [...]

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Bill W.

On December 3, 2009 By

It seemed to me in my mind’s eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man.

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Bill W.

On December 2, 2009 By

What I really meant was this: I was catapulted into a spiritual experience, which gave me the capability of feeling the presence of God, His love, and His omnipotence. And most of all, His personal availability to me

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Bill W.

On December 1, 2009 By

Nothing matters more to AA’s future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

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Bill W.

On December 1, 2009 By

Nothing pays off like restraint of pen and tongue.

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Bill W.

On November 28, 2009 By

The roads to recovery are many.

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