12 Steps of AA
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of
recovery:
- We admitted we were powerless over
alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will
and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and
to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had
harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
- Continued to take personal
inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as
a 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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1955, 1976 by
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