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12
Steps from the Original Manuscript
"Here
are the steps we took, which are
suggested as your Program of Recovery:"
1.
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
and direction
of God as we understood Him.
4.
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
5.
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
6.
Were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of character.
7.
Humbly, on our knees, asked Him
to remove our shortcomings -- holding
nothing back.
8.
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became willing to make
complete 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 promptly
admitted it.
11.
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our contact with God,
praying only for knowledge of His
will for us and the power to carry
that out.
12.
Having had a spiritual
awakening as a result of this course
of action,
we tried to carry this message to
others, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs.
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