Service is the spiritual principle behind step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to…

Awareness is the spiritual principle behind step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only…

Discipline is the spiritual principle behind step 10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. This is a…

Responsibility is the spiritual principle beyond step 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would…

The Spiritual Principle of step 8 is brotherly love. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. We are…

Humility is the spiritual principle behind step 7. We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings. Character defects or…

Willingness is the spiritual principle of step 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. We have emphasized…

Our sins die in the light. INTEGRITY is the spiritual principle of step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of…

The spiritual principle of step 4 is COURAGE: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” We learn to look for defects in our makeup. We will…

The spiritual principles of step 3 are surrender and faith. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. The action part of this step is…

Hope is the spiritual principle of Step 2- We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Admitting…

Step ONE stated that we admitted we were POWERLESS over addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable. Powerless means…

Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God’s ever-advancing Creation, many of us chose to believe that our human intelligence was…

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a…

God does not always remove the character defects we want him to when we want him to. He has a way of using the shortcomings in one to bring out…

Are we now ready to let God remove from us all things that we have admitted are objectionable? Can he now…

It is because the Spirit is able to receive Unconditional Love from the Father through the Son that…

Love and service go hand in hand. What a beautiful phenomenon when they polarize each other…

Overmoralization is its own form of devilry. Putting ourselves in a position of judgment over…

“The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost their power of choice in drink. Our so-called…