The Twelve Steps

We admit we are powerless over apocalypse – that life itself is unmanageable.

We come to believe that powers greater than the human ego pervade all circumstances in body and life.

We make a decision to turn our will and lives over to the compassion and guidance of a Higher Power of our understanding.

We make a courageous and searching moral inventory of our circumstances, thoughts, and deeds.

We admit to ourselves, our Higher Power, and another human the precise moral nature of our circumstances, thoughts, and deeds.

We become willing to have a Higher Power transform our thoughts and deeds to align with our values.

We humbly ask Higher Power to support this transformation.

We make a list of all ecological, cultural, personal, and interpersonal damages both caused by and done to us; and become willing to make amends for the damages we caused; or to forgive those who harmed us; remembering always grace for, and amends to, the self.

We make, whenever possible, direct amends through words and deeds to those we harmed, and cultivate forgiveness for those who have harmed us – including ourselves.

We continue to remain mindful of the effect our deeds, attitudes, and environment have on ourselves and the beings/things that surround us, and when we act unskillfully, promptly admit it.

We seek to improve our conscious contact with ourselves and our local and cosmic environments so that we may continue to gain insight and strength with which to channel our Higher Power's compassionate aspiration for all beings through processes including but not limited to observation, prayer, meditation and cooperation.

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we carry this message to others and try to practice presence and these principles in all our affairs.