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“To be open, I must believe there is something to be open to; that’s what I mean by spirituality. At the very least, I need openness to my own future.”

“My sponsor ... gave me some good advice. ‘Take the words success and failure out of your vocabulary. Replace them with honesty and effort.’”

"My sponsor ... gave me some good advice. 'Take the words success and failure out of your vocabulary. Replace them with honesty and effort.'"

“It has only been in the past few months that I have become interested in service work in AA. Before that, I was an AA barnacle, glued to my seat, criticizing the speakers and griping about the coffee. Now I’m on the other side of the squawks and bleeps, and I find, to my delight, I like it.”

"It has only been in the past few months that I have become interested in service work in AA. Before that, I was an AA barnacle, glued to my seat, criticizing the speakers and griping about the coffee. Now I'm on the other side of the squawks and bleeps, and I find, to my delight, I like it."

"It has only been in the past few months that I have become interested in service work in AA. Before that, I was an AA barnacle, glued to my seat, criticizing the speakers and griping about the coffee. Now I'm on the other side of the squawks and bleeps, and I find, to my delight, I like it."

“It's a wonderful feeling to know that you don't have to be a god or a goddess, a saint or a genius, to lead a reasonably happy, sober, healthy, communicative, constructive, and useful life -- with some laughter thrown in for good measure.”

"It's a wonderful feeling to know that you don't have to be a god or a goddess, a saint or a genius, to lead a reasonably happy, sober, healthy, communicative, constructive, and useful life -- with some laughter thrown in for good measure."

"It's a wonderful feeling to know that you don't have to be a god or a goddess, a saint or a genius, to lead a reasonably happy, sober, healthy, communicative, constructive, and useful life -- with some laughter thrown in for good measure."

“One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, ‘God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...’ I knew intuitively it was the answer.”

“A leader in AA service is ... a man (or a woman) who can personally put principles, plans and policies into such dedicated and effective action that the rest of us want to back him up and help him with his job.”

“One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, ‘God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...’ I knew intuitively it was the answer.”

“A leader in AA service is ... a man (or a woman) who can personally put principles, plans and policies into such dedicated and effective action that the rest of us want to back him up and help him with his job.”

“One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, ‘God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...’ I knew intuitively it was the answer.”

“A leader in AA service is ... a man (or a woman) who can personally put principles, plans and policies into such dedicated and effective action that the rest of us want to back him up and help him with his job.”