Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

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.

Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.

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

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.