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.
The Eleventh Step starts at the bottom of page 85 and extends through page 88. But, as we have already seen, the Big Book has been writing about prayer and meditation throughout the Book.
[Refer to the handout entitled “Prayers in the Big Book”.]
At the bottom of page 85, we find:
“Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn’t be
shy on this matter of prayer. Better men than we are using it
constantly. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work
at it.”
(page 85, para, lines 1-2; page 86, lines What does the Big Book mean when it says, it works In essence it is telling us that prayer and meditation puts us in contact with God. That’s what we’ve been doing by saying the prayers we’ve learned while going through the previous steps - making conscious contact with the God.
Then at the top of page 86, they make the statement:
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