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“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 5 · How It WorksWhere it comes from
Step Five as printed in Chapter 5 of the 1939 first edition.
Today’s reflectionThree audiences, and the third one is the cure. Secrets kept private stay perfectly preserved — saying them out loud to one trusted human is how they finally start to age. “Exact nature” matters too: not the highlight reel, the pattern underneath it. Nearly everyone who’s taken this Step reports the same surprise. The other person didn’t flinch. They usually said “me too.”
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