Amazing book very inspirational and explains why these steps and traditions are there

es increíble la manera en la que solamente 12 pasos pueden llevarte a vivir una verdadera vida plena y feliz, sin duda una guía para el buen vivir

This book changed my life. I have been sober since 8-12-1985!
I think working the 12 steps are essential to staying sober and living a great life.

Wonderful short complementary volume to Alcoholics Anonymous (the "Big Book"), the primary text of the 12-Step Fellowship. The book contains 24 chapters, one for each of the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. It was written over 10 years after the publication of the Big Book, and contains both elaboration on each of the Steps (and a lot more on the Traditional) and learnings from Bill W. and Dr. Bob in the early years of the Fellowship.

I just hit a year and a half sober and I fear I’m becoming a dry drunk. I sought out a therapist who has been extremely helpful. She suggested I go to AA. I went to one meeting which was very beneficial but I’m far from an “AA guy”. I found it therapeutic just to be around my peers and seeing people be that honest and open.

I definitely fall under the bare minimum of an AA person. I go in there with “the desire to stop drinking” and a kind of vague faith in a “higher power”. This book is for people that are all the way in. It’s so old timey and outdated sounding it’s not easy to read. I think I was supposed to read “the big book” first.

I don’t live and die by AA, but I found going to a meeting much more beneficial than sitting and reading this book. If I was in withdrawals looking for answers 3 days sober I would overhand throw this book, hard. Go to a meeting and read/follow the 12 steps as necessary, sitting and reading through this book is tedious at best and does not have any big answers that desperate drunks are likely seeking.

Was recommended to me as a spiritual text and was interested to know about the twelve steps.

Well worth a read - interesting that people more prone to alcoholism tend to be more successful but also all or nothing people. A big part of the twelve steps is a focus on practising humility.

Drunks and addicts love nothing more than loopholes! Here Bill W. effectively closes all such loopholes that rationalizing idiots (like myself) might sniff out in the "Big Book" and keeps our mind about our business of getting healthy. Thumpers will decry it (and I'm slightly one such "thumper"), but my ESH will not allow me to poo poo this great book. Great for working with the newcomer and putting seasoned alcoholics and addicts in a better understanding of Bill W.'s original goal.

One of my favorite AA books. It's full of so much wisdom and sense. Recommended reading
I have read and re-read this book so many times over the years.

I figured it out, and it’s not a slogan.

Honestly, this may be the most important book written in the English language. When it comes to changing people's lives, giving hope to the hopeless, and giving a clear plan to the lost, only the bible (not written in English originally) compares.

Commonly thought of as the 12 steps to sobriety, this book applies to everyone who realizes they have besetting sins. It also provides a clear pathway to sanctification: admit your helplessness, call out to God, be willing to change, undergo a rigorous moral inventory, confess that inventory to God and another person, be willing to be entirely changed, ask God to cleanse us of all these faults, make a list of everyone we have harmed, make direct amends, continue to take inventory and confess, improve our relationship to God through prayer and meditation, share the good news.

If you don't believe you need to take those steps, you do not understand yourself. If you don't think those steps are biblical, you don't understand Christianity.

I heartily recommend this book to everyone who believes they need to change.

Some Quotes:

People driven by pride blind themselves to their liabilities.

Only when we know we are able to receive forgiveness, will we be able to give it.

Humility = clear recognition of who and what we really are, together with a sincere attempt to become what we could be

We must recognize that we exult in some of our defects. We really love them.

Self-righteous anger can be very enjoyable. In a perverse way, we actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority.

Confession and repentance are the beginning of the end of our isolation from God and others.

We look for progress not perfection.

All people including ourselves are to some degree emotionally ill and frequently wrong.

Pain is the touchstone of all Spiritual progress

True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Helpful book and can help you sort out your life by following the tried and true principles (for recovering alcoholics) which guide you through living honestly, with integrity, using prayer and meditation to find peace and calm yourself, living unselfishly, letting go of resentments, and facing an uncertain future with dignity.

Such a powerful little book.

Written about 10 years after the main text of Alcoholics Anonymous, this has the collected and refined wisdom that could only come from 10 years or intense growth and learnings working with real alcoholics who finally had a chance to recover.

The 12 steps section is deeply spiritual and hints at two amazing things: (1) this is ancient spiritual wisdom that shows up in all the great wisdom traditions and (2) this is a “design for living” that is actually available to all.

The 12 traditions are often overlooked, but are a masterwork of organizational psychology. They were actually cited as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century and it’s easy to see why - they fly in the face of every modern principle of group / business organization and have yet been the successful operating system of one of the most impactful and high growth movements of the last near-century.