Pain is the touchstone of all growth

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.