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Bill W.

On November 28, 2009 By

We have good reason to disbelieve those who think spirituality is the way of weakness.

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Bill W.

On November 28, 2009 By

AA is an utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery.

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Bill W.

On November 27, 2009 By

Perhaps the thing that bothers you is the feeling that your case is somehow different and much worse than other peoples.

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Bill W.

On November 25, 2009 By

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next — chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer [...]

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Bill W.

On November 25, 2009 By

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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Bill W.

On November 17, 2009 By

We have never known the average, the mediocre. All or nothing, that’s us.

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Bill W.

On October 31, 2009 By

It has often been said of AA that we are interested only in alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permenently without undergoing a profound personality change.

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Bill W.

On October 31, 2009 By

We did not always come closer to wisedom by reason of our virtues; our better understanding is often rooted in the pains of our former folllies. Because this has been the essance of our individual experience, it is also the essence of our experience as a fellowship.

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Bill W.

On October 29, 2009 By

The AA Traditions are neither rules, regelations, nor laws. We obey them willingly because we ought to and because we want to. Perhaps the secret of their power lies in the fact that these life-giving communications spring out of living experience and are rooted in love.

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Bill W.

On October 29, 2009 By

We have succeeded in confronting many a problem drinker with that awful alternative. ‘This we AA’s do, or we die.’ Once this much is firmly in his mind, more drinking only turns the coil tighter. As many an alcoholic has said , ‘I came to the place where it was either into AA or out [...]

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