1.We
admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies,
that our life had become unmanageable.
2.We came to believe
that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity.
3.We made
a decision to turn our will and our life over to
the care of God, as we understood him.
4.We made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.We
admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.We were entirely ready to
have God ready to remove all these defects of character.
7.We humbly
asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8.We made a list of all persons
we had harmed and became willing to make amends
to them all.
9.We made
direct amends to such people whenever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.We continued to take personal
inventory and when we are wrong promptly admitted
it.
11.We
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 it out.
12.Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these steps, we tired
to carry this message to others, and to practice
these principles in all our affairs.
