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"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones."

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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Ben Okri LIVING CLEAN https://www.minds.com/group/1165910758624018432/feed

February 28, 2025 Reliability Matters Page 60 "We keep our commitments, and that matters to the people around us." Guiding Principles, Tradition One, "For Groups" For some of us, being a member of an NA group gives us our first taste of what it feels like to be reliable. When...See more

February 27, 2025 Powerlessness Opens the Door Page 59 "When we admit our powerlessness and our inability to manage our own lives, we open the door to recovery." Basic Text, Chapter 4, "Step One" Practicing powerlessness as a spiritual principle may seem far-fetched to many of...See more

February 27, 2025 "Pure" motives Page 59 "We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling." Basic Text, p. 43 Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you wake up in the morning, before...See more

February 26, 2025 Remorse Page 58 "The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse." Basic Text, p. 39 Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and...See more

February 25, 2025 Gratitude as a Practice Page 57 "One of the ways we express our gratitude for the gifts of recovery is to help others find what we've found." Just for Today, "Giving it away," January 30 During our first days of being clean, who of us is contemplating the...See more

February 24, 2025 A new influence Page 56 "Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love....See more

February 23, 2025 Messages and messengers Page 55 "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting "principles before...See more