The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
1.
We admitted we were powerless
over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.
Made a decision to turn our will
and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
5.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs.
6.
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects of character.
7.
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
8.
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11.
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood
Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry
that out.
12.
Having had a spiritual awakening
as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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