"Where could I hide", I said, "so I could never find myself?"
"I know. I could pretend that I'm not me or you nor he."
"I'll hide in a story and believe that it's real."
"Oh boy! What a joke on me."
"Where could I hide", I said, "so I could never find myself?"
"I know. I could pretend that I'm not me or you nor he."
"I'll hide in a story and believe that it's real."
"Oh boy! What a joke on me."
"I felt like I was forced out on a balcony with no clothes on screaming out to the world, 'This is all there is!'"
"God, please treat me tomorrow the way I treat Beth today."
"There is a difference between experiencing the abject misery of active alcoholism or the other which is the exquisite joy of sobriety. In my life I have experienced both of them."
"Today I have the ability to live peacefully, comfortably and joyously with myself and when I do that I have absolutely no difficulty living with you."
"I didn't spend five seconds on my related disorders."
"Now, thank God, the words 'as we understand Him', has no reference to understanding the infinite, thank God. It has reference only to the necessity for individual experience."
"Love in truth is possession but not the necessity to possess."
"If you use humility in life and if you ask for help and if you read the instructions and if you approach anything with any degree of humility you can accomplish things but I had no room in my life for instructions. That object lesson went right over my head."
"Relapse does not have to be part of your story. It is a part of a lot of people's stories and it takes what it takes but I was just very lucky that when I got here, I was really, really ready."
"I used to say I came from a dysfunctional family but I'm it. The rest of my family was fine."
"I truly believe that alcoholism is a feeling illness."
"This may be sacrilege in AA but I loved to drink. I loved everything about it....Life interfered with my drinking."
"God, I have no idea where I'm going. I do not see the road ahead of me and I cannot know for certain where it will end nor do I really know myself.
And the fact that I think I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe this: I believe the desire to please You does in fact please You and I hope I have that desire in everything I do and I hope I never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know if I do this, You will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it at the time.
Though I seem to be lost, in the very shadow of death, I will not be afraid because I know You will never leave me to face my troubles all alone."