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"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones."

Shannon Alder LIVING CLEAN https://www.minds.com/group/1165910758624018432/latest

"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

"Intuition is the whisper of the soul."

Jiddu Krishnamurti LIVING CLEAN https://www.minds.com/group/1165910758624018432/latest

September 16, 2026 Emotional balance Page 270 "Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out." Basic Text, p. 47 Though each of us defines "emotional balance" a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can...See more

September 14, 2026 Service, Purpose, and Belonging Page 266 "Service helps us feel like we belong. We have a place and a purpose. The experience can be humbling. Doing as the group asks, rather than as we choose, is a form of surrender." Guiding Principles, Tradition One, "For...See more

September 13, 2026 Sincerity and Keeping It Real Page 265 "We listen to one another with an open mind and an open heart, and we share our experience with the understanding that it won't necessarily be shared by everyone else." Living Clean, Chapter 3, "A Spiritual...See more

September 12, 2026 Individuality, Openness, and Our Spiritual Lives Page 264 "Each of us finds our own way to live spiritually, and that allows us freedom to make choices about how we live." Living Clean, Chapter 3, "A Spiritual, Not Religious Program" Throughout our...See more

September 11, 2026 Bend with the wind Page 265 "We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed." Basic Text, p. 102 "Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and...See more

September 09, 2026 Humility Is Living in Reality Page 261 "Humility is most easily identified as an acceptance of who we truly are--neither worse nor better than we believed we were when we were using, just human." NA Step Working Guides, Step One, "Spiritual Principles" In...See more

September 09, 2026 Feet of clay Page 263 "One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others." Basic Text, p. 82 Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering...See more

September 08, 2026 Gratitude Transforms Us Page 260 "Gratitude in action is an engine for change: As we carry the message, our own lives transform." Guiding Principles, Tradition Five, Opening Reflection We tell the newcomer, "Welcome home," as we give them our number, an IP,...See more

"The Buddha is known as the one 'Thus Come,' Tathagata. He has no more 'meaning' than a flower, than a tree; no more than the universe; no more than either you or I. And whenever anything is experienced that way, simply in and for and as itself, without reference to any concepts,...See more