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The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
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 G-d
as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to G-d, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
6. We are entirely ready to have G-d remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all these defects of character.
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, to
promptly admit it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact
with G-d 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 a 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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