“When I read a Step, and think about it deeply, I find it opens the door to new insights. When I read that same Step again, it again reveals new spiritual ideas.” (ODAT, 20 May)
Steps One, Two, and Six provide material for thinking. The decision in Three requires prior thought, and the willingness aspect of Eight requires thought. Four consists in action. Five consists in action. Seven consists in action. Eight, largely, and Nine, entirely, consist in action. Ten, Eleven, and Twelve consist entirely in action, albeit partly cerebral: not musing but directed through. Where the Step requires thought, the thought is not ‘about the Step’ but thinking as directed by the Step. That’s quite different.