The 12 Steps of Alcoholic Anonymous
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Step 1 - We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that our
lives had become unmanageable (you can
replace alcohol with addiction, gambling ect...)
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Step 2 - Came to believe that
a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity
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Step 3 - Made a decision to
turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood God
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Step 4 - Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves
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Step 5 - Admitted to God, to
ourselves and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs
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Step 6 - Were entirely ready
to have God remove all these defects of
character
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Step 7 - Humbly asked God to
remove our shortcomings
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Step 8 - Made a list of all
persons we had harmed, and became willing to
make amends to them all
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Step 9 - Made direct amends to
such people wherever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others
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Step 10 - Continued to take
personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it
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Step 11 - Sought through
prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as we understood
God, praying only for knowledge of God's
will for us and the power to carry that out
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Step 12 - Having had a
spiritual awakening as the result of these
steps, we tried to carry this message to
other alcoholics, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs
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