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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

"Intuition is the whisper of the soul."

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

November 25, 2025 Practicing Forgiveness, Forgoing Resentments Page 340 "Forgiveness is an action and a decision. We need a lot of forgiveness, and we also get to provide it." Living Clean, Chapter 7, Working the Twelve Steps of NA teaches us to make decisions for ourselves...See more

November 25, 2025 Meditation Page 343 "Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, pp. 46-47 As our recovery progresses, we often reflect on what brought us to Narcotics Anonymous in the first...See more

November 24, 2025 Hospitality Counters Self-Centeredness Page 339 "Simply making eye contact or offering a hug to a newcomer can make all the difference to them--and to us." Guiding Principles, Tradition Three, "Spiritual Principles" To those of us accustomed to being...See more

November 24, 2025 Gratefully recovering Page 342 "We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger." Basic Text, p. 102 There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. It's easy to do. We may...See more

November 23, 2025 Maturity Calls for Some Humility Page 338 "Doing the right thing when no one is looking is an act of service to what we believe in. Some of us call this integrity; the Sixth Step calls it character. Whatever we call it, this practice is the discipline that...See more

November 22, 2025 Facing Life with Courage Page 337 "We find the courage to follow our heart, to listen to the voice within, to create, to commit, to explore, and to live." Living Clean, Chapter 3, "Creative Action of the Spirit" It takes courage to give this NA way of life a...See more

November 20, 2025 Finding fulfillment Page 338 "We weren't oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all." Basic Text, p. 89 There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may...See more

November 19, 2025 The language of empathy Page 337 "...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years. " Basic Text, p. 88 Many of us attended...See more

November 18, 2025 Self-discovery Page 336 "The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence." Basic Text, p. 42 Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people;...See more