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The Twelve Steps- Copyright Permission

 

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have been reprinted and adapted  with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.  ("A.A.W.S.").  Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only – use of A.A.'s Steps or an adapted version of its Steps in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but address other problems, or use in any other non-A.A. context, does not imply otherwise. As requested by A.A.W.S., the original version of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is reprinted below:

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:

 1. We admitted we were powerless over our 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 have 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 wrong promptly admitted it.

11. 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.

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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