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Almost always, if I measure my decision carefully by the yardsticks of absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, absolute purity, and absolute love, and it checks up pretty well with those four, then my answer can't be very far out of the way. ∼Dr. Bob

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions were founded on the Four Absolutes. These Absolutes are the principles taught in the Oxford Movement, an early Christian group attended by the founders of A.A. A good spiritual exercise is to meditate on them and consider how they add to our decisions:

1.Absolute Honesty: Both with ourselves and with others, in word, deed, and thought;

2.Absolute Unselfishness: To be willing wherever possible to help others in need;

3.Absolute Love: To love God with our whole heart, mind, and soul, and to love our neighbors as ourselves; and,

4.Absolute Purity: Integrity and clarity of mind, of body, and of purpose.

I memorize the four absolutes and measure

my decisions against their wisdom.

So we obey the spiritual principles of our program in both our personal and our group lives {…}

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 97