Chapter 6, Page 83-84 of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed
before we are half way 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 of 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.