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“There are many kinds of spiritual experience. Some are like the conversions of the great religious leaders of the past; others seem purely psychological. Some are sudden or instantaneous; others are a gradual learning experience. But all of them, whatever form they take, have one effect: They make a person capable of doing something he could not do before.

“As Bill puts it, ‘When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.’”

“There are many kinds of spiritual experience. Some are like the conversions of the great religious leaders of the past; others seem purely psychological. Some are sudden or instantaneous; others are a gradual learning experience. But all of them, whatever form they take, have one effect: They make a person capable of doing something he could not do before. “As Bill puts it, ‘When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.’”

“I did not know what real happiness was when I came through the doors of AA. I needed someone to teach me.”

“Today’s disappointment, viewed six months hence, may turn out to be one of the best breaks we ever got.”

“Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile.”

“Times change, people change, and language may change. But the disease of alcoholism does not change. It always kills.”

“Today’s disappointment, viewed six months hence, may turn out to be one of the best breaks we ever got.”

“We've resolved never to allow either money or the management of our necessary affairs to obscure our spiritual aims.”

“I did not know what real happiness was when I came through the doors of AA. I needed someone to teach me.”

"We've resolved never to allow either money or the management of our necessary affairs to obscure our spiritual aims."

"Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile."

"Times change, people change, and language may change. But the disease of alcoholism does not change. It always kills."

“Today’s disappointment, viewed six months hence, may turn out to be one of the best breaks we ever got.”

“I did not know what real happiness was when I came through the doors of AA. I needed someone to teach me.”

“Older AAs who know the record are unanimous in their feeling that an intelligence greater than ours has surely been at work, else we could never have avoided so many pitfalls, could never have been so happily related to our millions of friends in the outside world.”