Basic Spiritual Principles are a must to a happy life.

​If you didn’t learn the basic spiritual principles behind the Twelve Steps when you were a small child, then it can be like pulling an elephant through a pinhole as an adult!  The elephant is our ego and the pinhole is the glimmer of hope and willingness that can come from a profound moment of clarity.  That moment when you realize that you don’t know who you are or what you are doing here on Earth! (I have had that moment)
The principles behind the steps are: Honesty, Hope, Faith, Courage, Integrity, Willingness, Humility, Discipline and Action, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Knowledge and Awareness, and Service and Gratitude.  These are the basic things we need to be good human’s, good citizens and to have good personal relationships, provided you want to be truly happy here on Earth.
This is what happens when our minds get filled with information and we think that information is who we are, until we realize that what we do is not who we are, and who we are is a very unhappy person.  The work is not easy but doable!!  The four agreements are a good start.