Alcoholics Anonymous Step 2 --- The Cornerstone (RESTORED TO SANITY)

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Alcoholics Anonymous Step 2 --- The Cornerstone (RESTORED TO SANITY)

The Cornerstone:


We needed to ask ourselves but one short question.

Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?"

As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. (BB 47:2)




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* Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” pdf
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STEP 1
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become
unmanageable.


STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity


STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood
Him.


STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.


STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.


STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects
of character.


STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.


STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to
them all.


STEP 9
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible,
except when to do so would
injure them or others.


STEP 10
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.


STEP 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.


STEP 12
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.





SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE

HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE

TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS


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