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 knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this
message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous (p.59 & p.60) with permission of A.A.
World Services, Inc.
on this site
ABU DHABI
AL AIN
BAHRAIN
CAIRO
DUBAI
IRAQ
KUWAIT
OMAN
QATAR
SAUDI ARABIA
SHARJAH
Service Material from the General Service Office
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may
express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not
govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a
whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still
suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or
outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary
purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers
may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees
directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought
never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always
maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place
principles before personalities.
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