12 Steps of AA
THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
1. We admitted we were powerless overalcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greaterthan ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and ourlives over to the care of God as we understoodHim.
4. Made a searching and fearless moralinventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and toanother human being the exact nature of ourwrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God removeall 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 themall.
9. Made direct amends to such peoplewherever possible, except when to do sowould injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventoryand when we were wrong promptly admittedit.
11. Sought through prayer and meditationto improve our conscious contact with God, aswe understood Him, praying only for knowledgeof His will for us and the power to carrythat out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as theresult of these steps, we tried to carry thismessage to alcoholics, and to practice theseprinciples in all our affairs.
(in case you did not know them)
1. We admitted we were powerless overalcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greaterthan ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and ourlives over to the care of God as we understoodHim.
4. Made a searching and fearless moralinventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and toanother human being the exact nature of ourwrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God removeall 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 themall.
9. Made direct amends to such peoplewherever possible, except when to do sowould injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventoryand when we were wrong promptly admittedit.
11. Sought through prayer and meditationto improve our conscious contact with God, aswe understood Him, praying only for knowledgeof His will for us and the power to carrythat out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as theresult of these steps, we tried to carry thismessage to alcoholics, and to practice theseprinciples in all our affairs.
(in case you did not know them)
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