Bill's Story
This man talked to Bill in his kitchen about the solution he had found to his own problem with alcoholism.
Who is Ebby Thatcher?
We believe that early in our drinking careers most of us could have done this.
What is stop drinking.
This we think is the root of our troubles.
What is selfishness and self-centeredness?
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as this.
What is intensive work with other alcoholics?
These three principles are the essentials of recovery.
What are willingness, honesty and open mindedness?
The type of fever Bill contracted where he thought he could overtake Walter Hagen.
What is golf fever?
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost this.
What is the power to choose whether or not to drink?
When embarking on the Fourth Step personal inventory, nothing counted but these.
What are thoroughness and honesty?
Who benefits most from an older member helping a newer member?
What is the older member?
The supplementary chapter Spiritual Experience is found on this appendix in the 4th edition of the Big Book.
What is Appendix II?
When Bill is convinced that God is concerned with us humans when we want him enough he states that these fell from his eyes.
What are scales of pride and prejudice.
In the story about a car salesman named Jim, Jim thinks he will be safe if he pours his whisky into this.
What is a glass of milk?
This is the third of the three pertinent ideas listed on page 60.
What is God could and would if he were sought?
Page 98 states that anyone can get well regardless of anyone as long as they do this.
What is trust in God and clean house?
Most of our spiritual experiences are what the psychologist William James calls this, because they develop slowly over a period of time.
What is the educational variety.
The stock ticker referenced in Bill's Story bore this inscription.
What is XYZ-32?
A lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight.
What is insanity?
When we are running on self will we are trying to perform this duty in a play.
What is the director?
When visiting a new prospect we share this person's drinking/using.
What is our own?
The terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening” are used to describe this.
What is a personality change sufficient to bring about recovery?
On the first page of Bills Story, a Hampshire Grenadier is mentioned. This is how he caught his death.
What is drinking cold small beer?
In the story of Fred, he did this when the thought suddenly came to his mind that it would be nice to have a couple of cocktails with dinner.
What is crossed the threshold of the dining room?
Fear is compared to this common object used in sewing.
What is a thread?
This might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved.
What is a a spirit of intolerance.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation"
This quote is attributed to this man.
Who is Herbert Spencer?