The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and 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 the the care 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 asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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 whenever 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 conscious contact with God 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 result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all our affairs.