Quotes from Bill Pittman

We all know individuals in recovery who have given up the booze or another addiction, yet they are staying dry or abstinent only by redirecting their intense inner misery into the lives of others.

Without emotional and spiritual recovery, you don't have much. You have abstinence, and you may not even have that for very long. If you don't follow the "clear-cut" directions of our Program, you can't move into receiving God's directions.

They have gotten down to their own right size. Humility is understanding that they're worthwhile. It's the middle ground between the extremes of grandiosity and intense shame.

If you're a real alcoholic or addict, you will stop using some day; it's better to be alive when it happens.

God, not me, makes me different by giving me what it takes to change. It is my job to act and behave like the change has occurred. In doing this, the process of change happens.

Our life now means something and counts for things that are good.

The fact that I will daily question my willingness to change will increase my ability to be increasingly willing.

195 For Guidance Father of light, Give us wisdom to know You, Intelligence to understand You, Courage to seek You, Patience to wait for You, Eyes to see You, A heart to meditate on You, And a life to proclaim You. by St. Benedict

We fear becoming invisible if we stop practicing our faults.