"The greatest gift that can come to anybody is a spiritual awakening. So we do awake, and we are sober. Then what? Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning, it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. And if it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever."

Bill Wilson