“We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134”

“We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134”

“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”

“Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.”

“Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”

“Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.”

“Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.”

“The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future.”

“People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.”

“Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.”

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”

“Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127”