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| -AA Big Book, pg 13: |
| "I was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me." |
Step Eleven: 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.
In stillness we will hear God's Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word. We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. 
We have the experience of the miracle of the loss of the conflict of our perceptual identity and we enter into a union with God which is the basis of all of the teachings. “God is the Mind with which I think.” “Thy will not mine be done”. 
We never apologize to anyone for depending upon our Creator. We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength. 
Now I have found help which will never let me down. It will always love and support me if I search for it, making me more and more conscious of God's part in everything I think, say and do as I become aware of the miracles in my life that spring from that nearness to my Higher Power.