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The Promises 

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed

before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new

happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will

comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down

the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. 

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in

selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. 

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which

 used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could

not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises?  We think not. They are being

fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize

 if we work for them.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition, pages 83,84.