Bill's Story

"It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects. My incredible behavior in the face of a desperate desire to stop was explained. Understanding myself now, I fared forth in high hope. For three or four months the goose hung high. I went to town regularly and even made a little money. Surely this was the answer--self-knowledge."

 __Bill Wilson.

Source: c. 1939, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill's Story, p. 7

 

 

"No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions.I had met my match. Alcohol was my master."
__Bill Wilson.

Source: c. 1939, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill's Story, p.8.

"My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the astronomers, even the evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work. Despite contrary indications, I had little doubt that a might purpose and rhythm underlay all. How could there be so much of precise and immutable law, and no intelligence? I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew nether time nor limitation. But that was as far as I had gone." __Bill Wilson.

Source: c. 1939, AAWS, Alcohoics Anonymous, Bill's Story, p. 10.

Meditation

We will want the good that is in us all,
even in the worst of us, to flower and grow. But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 10.

I stood in the sunlight at last.
H O P E = Honest Open Positive Environment.