Bill Wilson suggested in AA's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Steps 10 and 11 are intimately linked.

 Neither can really stand alone. Step 10 without Step 11 leaves us in a position of notknowing, powerless to stop following our own wills without the help of a Power greater than
ourselves. Step 11 without Step 10 causes us to try and seek God's will for us while we are still
clinging unconsciously to our own thoughts, feelings, and desires. As we will see in our Studies
of Step 11, one important purpose of the continuous practice of “prayer without ceasing,” of
ongoing prayer and meditation, is to make the power of God available to us moment by moment
in our practice of Step 10 – so that, with Jesus and with many other spiritual thinkers throughout
history, we may say to our Higher Power, “I want to do this; please give me the knowledge and
power to do what You want instead.”

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