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We admitted we were powerless over

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Made a list of all persons we had harmed,

 

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alcohol – that our lives had become

 

and became willing to make amends to

 

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unmanageable

 

them all

 

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2.

Came to believe that a Power greater than

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Made direct amends to such people

 

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ourselves could restore us to sanity

 

wherever possible, except when to do so

 

 

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would injure them or others

 

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3.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives

 

 

 

nearby:

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over to the care of God, as we understood Him

10.

Continued to take personal inventory and

 

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when we were wrong promptly admitted it

 

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4.

Made a searching and fearless moral

 

 

 

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inventory of ourselves

11.

Sought through prayer and meditation to

 

 

 

 

 

 

improve our conscious contact with God,

 

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5.

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another

 

as we understood Him, praying only for

 

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human being the exact nature of our wrongs

 

knowledge of His will for us and the power

 

 

 

 

 

 

to carry that out

 

 

 

 

6.

Were entirely ready to have God remove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

all these defects of character

12.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of these Steps, we tried to carry this message

 

 

 

 

7.

Humbly asked Him to remove our

 

to alcoholics, and to practice these principles

 

 

 

 

 

shortcomings

 

in all our affairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous - from Chapter 5 in the Big Book.

 

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