23 Eylül

"We used to live and lived to use. " In active addiction, the tools of the disease helped shape our personalities. It also affected what we thought about ourselves.

Isolation shrank our world. A lot of our time was spent using and finding ways to use more. Toward the end of our using most of us had very little contact with others, except to serve our active addiction.

Many of us arrived to Narcotics Anonymous thinking of ourselves as a defect looking for a character. When others shared their stories with us, we Identified with their feelings and suffering. After coming to Narcotics Anonymous we found out that we were sick people trying to get better, not bad people trying to get well. We learned that our problem was one that was Spiritual in nature.

The Narcotics Anonymous Program offered us a Spiritual Solution. The Solution required us to take action by applying Spiritual Principles in every area of our Lives.

It offered us Freedom from active addiction. The Program offered us a Fellowship, so we wouldn't have to do it alone, because we can't. The unspoken language of Empathy became one of the Principles that led us to Self- Acceptance.

Our Literature tells us that part of Sanity is effectively relating to others. The Steps and Traditions makes this possible. We start to experience a relationship with Reality, as we Share these Spiritual Principles with others in our Lives.

In This Moment: We will not moralize or judge each other. We realize as we kept coming back, that what makes us unique, is that we are all the same.