Twelve
Steps
These
are the original Twelve Steps as published
by Alcoholics Anonymous:
- 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 the result
of these steps, we tried to carry this
message to alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all our affairs.
In
some cases, where other twelve-step groups
have adapted the AA steps as guiding
principles, they have been altered to
emphasize principles important to those
particular fellowships, to remove
gender-biased or specific religious
language.
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