"Step 12 gives us a guarantee-a promise that if we take the first eleven Steps, we will have a spiritual awakening. The result of working these Steps is just that: a spiritual awakening..."

"Now we carry this message to others: 'I have tapped an inner resource with the first eleven Steps, and if you have a problem in your life and you would like to tap your inner resource, this is the way you can do it. It has worked for me'."

"This is all the message is. It is very simple: here is a program that works..."

"I believe there are as many different experiences of spiritual awakening as there are people. It is a very personal thing... Each person is going to have a unique spiritual experience or a unique spiritual awakening that will fit his or her particular life. Each one will be like no other, but they all will have someting in common: we will be able to think, believe, and feel things that we couldn't before. We will be able to do things we couldn't do on our own strength..."

"When we talk to a new person we don't talk about anything we 'believe,' we talk about what we have known through experience."

Joe McQ in The Steps We Took, pp151-152, 1990 ISBN 0-87483-151-2 (Highly recommended by DGK.)