The 12 Steps
of Alcoholics Anonymous



1. "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - 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 to 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 wherever 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 the 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."



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Step One
 
Step Five
 
Step Nine
 
Step Two
 
Step Six
 
Step Ten
 
Step Three
 
Step Seven
 
Step Eleven
 
Step Four
 
Step Eight
 
Step Twelve


Reprinted from the "Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc."