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is the first step in recovery.”
Your admission is a major accomplishment, since most alcoholics live in total denial they have a progressive and fatal illness.
We are now ready to proceed.
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Step 2:
Step 2 Came to believe that a Power greater than our-
selves could restore us to sanity.
Now that we have admitted we are alcoholics, let’s look at what else we have to do in order to recover. In the fourth paragraph on page 44, we learn:
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(page 44, para. 4, lines 1-2; page 45, lines 1-8)
“If a mere code of morals or abetter philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact,
we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn’t there. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient they failed utterly.”
(A.A., p. 44, para. 4, lines 1-2; p. 45, lines What is it going to take for us to find this Power The answer is in the back of the Big Book within Appendix II. Starting with the second paragraph on page 568, we find:

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