The Twelve Steps

THERE HAS BEEN some constant discussion of late in many groups about contented sobriety and about the extent to which the spiritual aspect of our program of recovery should be placed before the newcomer. These two subjects have not been consciously linked together at meetings, but in our view they are closely related. In our experience, those who have attained a reasonable measures of contentment in sobriety are those who have kept the spiritual disciplines and exercises of the Twelve Steps in the forefront of their minds.