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AA's 12 Steps
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 people we had harmed, and become 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 or affairs.
Alcoholics Anonymous
pages 59-60
