12 Spiritual Principals To Live By...

12 Spiritual Principals To Live By...

September 21, 2011 at 1:43pm

Honesty

Hope

Faith

Courage

Integrity

Willingness

Humility

Brotherly-Sisterly Love/Unity

Justice

Perserverance

Spirituality

Service

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(Derived from the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous)

Honesty

Step 1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addictions - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Hope

Step 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Faith

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

Courage

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

Integrity

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

Willingness

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

Humility

Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Brotherly/Sisterly Love/Unity

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

Justice

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

Perserverance

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

Spirituality

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.

Service

Step 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.