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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."

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"Intuition is the whisper of the soul."

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June 28, 2025 Unconditional Love Brings Healing Page 185 "Practicing the principle of unconditional love in the Twelfth Step is essential. Nobody needs love without conditions more than a suffering addict." NA Step Working Guides, Step Twelve, "Spiritual Principles" Judging...See more

June 27, 2025 Cooperating for the Common Good Page 184 "It's essential in whatever way we give back that we are able to share with others and to cooperate, and these are not skills most of us bring to the rooms with us." Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Principles, Practice, and...See more

June 26, 2025 The Therapeutic Value of Practicality Page 183 "We feel that our approach to the disease of addiction is completely realistic, for the therapeutic value of one addict helping another is without parallel." Basic Text, Chapter 4: How It Works By the time we get to...See more

June 25, 2025 Not just lucky Page 183 "The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief." Basic Text, p. 25 Coming to believe is a process that stems from personal experience. Each of us has this experience; all...See more

June 24, 2025 Tolerance Page 182 "...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve Sometimes it's hard to accept others' character defects. As we recover together, we not only listen to others talk in meetings, we also watch how they walk...See more

June 23, 2025 Attentiveness to NA's Message Page 180 "Each of us has something to offer. We don't need specialized training to carry the message; all we need to do is pay attention." Guiding Principles, Tradition Eight, Opening Reflection We all have something to give in NA,...See more

June 22, 2025 Accepting life as it is Page 180 "In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions." Basic Text, p. 90 Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of...See more

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” Eckhart Tolle Eiler Sørensen - A Woman Standing by an Open Sunlit Window, 1869 - 1953.

June 21, 2025 New levels of honesty Page 179 "We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization." Basic Text, p. 28 When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, "Well now, that shouldn't be too difficult. All I have to do is stop...See more