It is the prayer of quiet and self-surrender that will best allow us to follow step 11, which Bill W must have recognized by also using the word meditation - at time when the word was not at all common in Christian circles. And he was right, because only contemplative prayer or meditation invades, touches, and heals the unconscious! This is where all the garbage lies-but also where God hides and reveals, in that “secret place” (Matthew 6:6.) “do you not know,” Jesus says, “the kingdom of God is within you!” (Luke 17:21)