It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that its outward appearances are not inward reality at all. The prosaic steel girder is a mass of electrons whirling around each other at incredible speed, and these tiny bodies are governed by precise laws. Science tells us so. We have no reason toContinue reading “Inward Reality – As Bill Sees It # 260”
Category Archives: Big Book Quotes
We Are Not Fighting – As Bill Sees It #121
We have ceased fighting anything or anyone–even alcohol. For by this time sanity has returned. We can now react sanely and normally, and we find that this has happened almost automatically. We see that thisnew attitude toward liquor is really a gift of God. That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it,Continue reading “We Are Not Fighting – As Bill Sees It #121”
Dependence – Unhealthy Or Healthy – As Bill Sees It #72
Dependence—Unhealthy or Healthy Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped-for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone—either to grow up or toContinue reading “Dependence – Unhealthy Or Healthy – As Bill Sees It #72”
Changing The Way We See In Our 4th Step – Practice These Principles Ray A.
“We swing from blaming others and getting angry, to blaming ourselves and getting depressed. In either case, we weren’t seeing straight” For us alcoholics, changing the way we see is changing the way we are in every significant aspect of our being: morally, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Our goal is to be better, not justContinue reading “Changing The Way We See In Our 4th Step – Practice These Principles Ray A.”
Sweet Surrender – Grapevine Article March 2024 By Jeff B.
He stopped swimming upstream and dove into Step 3 to find a peace and purpose he never knew The first time I got drunk I remember thinking that I was going to make feeling that way my No. 1 priority until the day I died. For the next 13 years I kept my word, minimallyContinue reading “Sweet Surrender – Grapevine Article March 2024 By Jeff B.”
Black & Blue & Yellow – Grapevine Article April 2024 By Judith M.
Celebrating 50 years of sobriety, she took down her book and marveled at the marks she made that mattered most It was my 50th AA anniversary month and time for a good annual house cleaning. So I got down my original Big Book, a sixth printing of the Second edition, to reminisce. I was struckContinue reading “Black & Blue & Yellow – Grapevine Article April 2024 By Judith M.”
Combining The 3rd Step and 7th Step Prayer
It’s interesting that the 3rd Step Prayer does not have an ‘amen’ as it concludes. I have been told that perhaps the 7th step prayer includes that missing ‘amen’. So try putting these two prayers together. I’ve also taken Bill W’s lead from his slight restatement of the 3rd Step Prayer (in As Bill SeesContinue reading “Combining The 3rd Step and 7th Step Prayer”
Worshipers All – As Bill Sees It #23
We found that we had been indeed worshippers. What a state of mental goose flesh that used to bring on! Had we not variously worshipped people, sentiment, things, money, and ourselves? And then, with a better motive, had we not worshipfully beheld the sunset, the sea, or a flower? Who of us had not lovedContinue reading “Worshipers All – As Bill Sees It #23”
The Spiritual Angle of AA – Grapevine Article October 1955 By Rev. Samuel Shoemaker
The early A.A. got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Groups and directly from Sam Shoemaker, their former leader in America, and from nowhere else.” — BILL W. IT was clear to Bill W. from the first, I take it, thatContinue reading “The Spiritual Angle of AA – Grapevine Article October 1955 By Rev. Samuel Shoemaker”
A Psychic Change – Grapevine Article March 2017 By Charlie D.
Waking up in a hospital bed, diagnosed with alcoholic dementia, he found his way out of the fog with the help of his Higher Power One spring day, I was admitted to a large general hospital in a major city. When I woke up the next morning, I recognized a hospital room but didn’t knowContinue reading “A Psychic Change – Grapevine Article March 2017 By Charlie D.”
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