- One: We admitted
we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives
had become unmanageable.
- Two:
Came
to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
- Three:
Made
a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him.
- Four: Made a
searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
- Five:
Admitted to God, to
ourselves, and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
- Six:
Were
entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character.
- Seven:
Humbly
asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Eight:
Made
a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all.
- Nine:
Made
direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Ten:
Continued
to take personal inventory and when we were
wrong, promptly admitted it.
- Eleven:
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.
- Twelve:
Having
had a spiritual awakening as the result of those
steps, we tried to carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice these principles in
all our affairs.
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