12 Steps of Humans Anonymous

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How do I renounce my ego?

 

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our egos, that our lives

had always been unmanageable.

 

(As long as we identify with ego, ego will interpret our attempts to

renounce it as killing "ourselves"). To prevent its "death" ego will

try to convince us that it can "fix itself". Ego can never "fix

itself" to the point of being able to produce love/sanity, because

love does not come from ego. Love must come from a source other than

the body, mind or personality.

 

2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could lead us

to sanity.

 

THE HIGHER POWER IS PURE EXPERIENCE.

 

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of

God as we understood God.

 

(now we have to figure out what it is we are TURNING OVER)

 

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves as ego-

dominated creatures. (facing ourselves)

 

we are working on attaining humility... a setting aside of our

arrogant lies:

 

a. that we know what we are doing

b. that we are satisfied with the way we are

c. that we don't need help from anyone.

 

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact

nature of our ego-dominated behavior.

 

6. Were entireley ready for God to replace our egos as the director

of our lives.

 

This step is the Main Event. If, after taking this step, we do not

have the undeniable experience of the presence of God (the experience

of the liberation from ego-identity), it simply means that we did not

really take the step (we did not take it with true humility, which

means we did not relinquish our egos... we need to go back and tell

more truth.

 

7. Humbly asked God to assume full control of our lives.

 

8. Having had a spiritual awakening, we became ready to make amends

for our ego-dominated behavior. Made a list of all persons we had

harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

 

9. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to

do so would injure them or others.

 

10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong,

promptly admitted it.

 

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious

contact with God as we understood God, praying only for God's will

for us, and the power to carry that out.

 

If we are not living in the experience of love, we are not living in

the experience of God, we are living under ego-domination... It is

just that simple!

 

The responsibility which accompanies our awakening is twofold:

 

1. to share our awakening with those who still slumber in their pain

 

2. to never delude ourselves that we are in any way superior to them.

 

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,

we tried to carry this message to ego-dominated human beings, and to

preactice these principles in all our affairs.

 

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