Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 28                                                Being ourselves

    "To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 35

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   Humility is a puzzling concept.   We know a lot about humiliation, but
   humility is a new idea.  It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing,
   and scraping.  But that's not what humility is at all.  True humility
   is, simply, acceptance of who we are.

   By the time we reach a step that uses the word "humbly," we have
   already started to put this principle into practice.   The Fourth Step
   gives us an opportunity to examine who we really are, and the Fifth Step
   helps us accept that knowledge.

   The practice of humility involves accepting our true nature, honestly
   being ourselves.  We don't have to grovel or abase ourselves, nor must
   we try to appear smarter, wealthier, or happier than we really are.
   Humility simply means we drop all pretense and live as honestly as we can.

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   Just for today:   I will allow knowledge of my true nature to guide my
   actions.  Today, I will face the world as myself.