The 12 Steps of Discovery
1) We admitted we were powerless over our circumstance, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2) We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3) We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood them.
4) We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5) We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our inventory.
6) We were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character.
7) We humbly asked them to remove our shortcomings.
8) We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9) We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except where to do so would injure them or others.
10) We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11) We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our concious contact with God as we understood them, praying only for knowledge of their 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 to those who are still suffering, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
