Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

STEP NINE

what it may? Of course, there is no pat answer which can
fit all such dilemmas. But all of them do require a complete
willingness to make amends as fast and as far as may be
possible in a given set of conditions.

Above all, we should try to be absolutely sure that we
are not delaying because we are afraid. For the readiness
to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take
responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time,
is the very spirit of Step Nine.