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We admitted we were powerless
over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our will and
our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.
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Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves and to
another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had
harmed, and became willing to make amends to
them all.
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Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and
when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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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.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as
the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.
