12 Steps
AA's
Twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their
nature,
which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the
obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become
happily and usefully whole.
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From The Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions
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 short
comings.
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.