Every good thought you create, every good feeling you have, every good word you speak and every good action you perform, every virtue you manifest, builds for you the path.

Hiawatha  Iroquois

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path...Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it--then you are ready to take certain steps... Here are the steps we took which are suggested as a program of recovery...Many of us exclaimed. "What an order! I can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principals. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principals we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection...

Big Book  pg. 58

Reprinted with permission A.A.W.S.

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.

Big Book  pg. 66

Reprinted with permission A.A.W.S.

Great Spirit help us. Show us the good path.