Bill's Story
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Spiritual Experience
100
This man talked to Bill in his kitchen about the solution he had found to his own problem with alcoholism.
Who is Ebby Thatcher?
100
We believe that early in our drinking careers most of us could have done this.
What is stop drinking.
100
This we think is the root of our troubles.
What is selfishness and self-centeredness?
100
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as this.
What is intensive work with other alcoholics?
100
These three principles are the essentials of recovery.
What are willingness, honesty and open mindedness?
200
The type of fever Bill contracted where he thought he could overtake Walter Hagen.
What is golf fever?
200
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?
200
When embarking on the Fourth Step personal inventory, nothing counted but these.
What are thoroughness and honesty?
200
Who benefits most from an older member helping a newer member?
What is the older member?
200
The supplementary chapter Spiritual Experience is found on this appendix in the 4th edition of the Big Book.
What is Appendix II?
300
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.
300
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?
300
This is the third of the three pertinent ideas listed on page 60.
What is God could and would if he were sought?
300
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?
300
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.
400
The stock ticker referenced in Bill's Story bore this inscription.
What is XYZ-32?
400
A lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight.
What is insanity?
400
When we are running on self will we are trying to perform this duty in a play.
What is the director?
400
When visiting a new prospect we share this person's drinking/using.
What is our own?
400
The terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening” are used to describe this.
What is a personality change sufficient to bring about recovery?
500
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?
500
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?
500
Fear is compared to this common object used in sewing.
What is a thread?
500
This might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved.
What is a a spirit of intolerance.
500
"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?