Just For Today
Just for Today ® is a publication of Narcotics Anonymous World Services. Just for Today is a daily meditational for recovering addicts who are recovering from the disease of addiction. Each Just for Today meditational gives the recovering addict a spirtual principal to focus on for the day. Each daily meditation focuses on a spirtual principal which is incorporated, through the program, into our lives.May 14, 2008 |
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| Page 140 |
| "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." |
| Basic Text, p. 23 |
| Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt at the very least, with frustration and impatience. We tend to see mistakes as evidence that we are still sick, crazy, stupid, or too damaged to recover. In truth, mistakes are a very vital and important part of being human. For particularly stubborn people (such as addicts), mistakes are often our best teachers. There is no shame in making mistakes. In fact, making new mistakes often shows our willingness to take risks and grow. It's helpful, though, if we learn from our mistakes; repeating the same ones may be a sign that we're stuck. And expecting different results from the same old mistakes well, that's what we call "insanity!' It just doesn't work. |
| Just for Today: Mistakes aren't tragedies. But please, Higher Power, help me learn from them! |
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