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“Spiritual growth and experiences are not limited to orthodox believers in a deity, any more than the disease of alcoholism is limited to skid-row bums.”

“Simple gratitude compels us all to be mindful of the needs of others and to work in the ways and through the means developed by the AA movement to try to reach some of the millions of our fellow alcoholics who are still suffering in the hell from which we have escaped.”

“Where before there was a gaping hole of emptiness, I seek within me that faint ember of self-love, self-worth, and desire for goodness.”

“We are alcoholics. Even though now recovered, we are never too far removed from the possibility of fresh personal disaster. Each knows he must observe a high degree of honesty, humility, and tolerance, or else drink again.”

“The power in these rooms is greater than the sum total of those of us present.”

“If you want to be happy, go to a meeting. If you want to be twice as happy, go to two meetings.”

“Now that my spiritual eyes have begun to open, the world is much fuller.”

“When I’m in fear, my sponsor always tells me, ‘Maybe you should get a bigger God.’”

“Simplicity, devotion, steadfastness, and loyalty; these, we remembered, were the hallmarks of character which Dr. Bob had well implanted in so many of us.”

“We will still have daydreams ... But they will be constructive dreams, rather than mere flights of fancy.”

“When we concentrate on loving those we think are unlovable, we find out how expansive love is.”

“In the Twelve Steps, AA offers not a theory, not a hypothesis, not a pious hope, not -- thank God -- wistful or wishful thinking, but a historical record of how more than 25,000 [now over 2,000,000] alcoholics achieved sobriety.”

“I am responsible for reporting for duty and making the effort to overcome the adversity, and in so doing to overcome myself.”

“Whatever strengthens the spirituality of the group strengthens my spirituality, and vice versa.”

“Truly transforming spiritual experiences are nearly always founded on calamity and collapse.”