I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, ones heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37

My sponsor told me that I should be a grateful alcoholic and always have an attitude of gratitudethat gratitude was the basic ingredient of humility, that humility was the basic ingredient of anonymity, and that anonymity was the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. As a result of his guidance, I start every morning on my knees, thanking God for three things: Im alive, Im sober, and Im a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I try to live an attitude of gratitude and thoroughly enjoy another twenty-four hours of the A.A. way of life. A.A. is not something I joined; its something I live.