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“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.”

“The temptations of riches could sometimes be worse than the pains of poverty.”

“Seeing my defects is not enough to make them improve or go away -- the solution seems to be following awareness with action.”

“How does one tune in to the Higher Power? The answer I have learned from AA is to recharge my spiritual battery every day -- ‘you can’t pull today’s load with yesterday’s horse.’”

“I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed, upon any set of circumstances whatever. Then only could I be free to love.”