Often our hardest times make us more spiritual. Both our addiction and exceptionally difficult external situations provide opportunity to grow spiritually.

Embrace the moral and ethical frameworks of spiritual teachings of your choice. Let them replace the chaos that leads to addiction. Consider yoga or meditation as a way to ground yourself. Do what resonates with you.

If you believe in God, pray to him. If you don’t, find your own form of spirituality. This can include appreciation of nature and the universe, the Marble Program itself, or some other spiritual belief system.

If you need help coping with stress, pray or go outside and enjoy nature. This will help you separate yourself from the stress and allow you space to think.

If you pray to God, don’t ask that anything should or shouldn’t happen. Ask not to fear any of the things you fear, to not desire the things you desire, and to not be pained by anything.

If you do not have a spiritual community to join, the Marble Program can fill that void. It is kind, gentle, loving of mankind, and devoted to the common good. It will help you escape addiction and isolation. Help it grow by recruiting others.

When we appreciate the beauty of all the things the universe has created, like the sunsets and the mountains, it causes us to have hope of life and liberty in our hearts. It’s good to be carried away by nature’s beauty.

Think about how many events you have passed through, and how many things you were able to endure, and how many beautiful things you have seen in your life. Don’t waste other opportunities by being inebriated or pulled by strings of addiction.

Consider the eternity of time and how infinite the time is before birth and the time after death, and how short the time is between birth and death, and how rapidly things change. Remaining sober lets you use the remaining time you have effectively.

You can’t lose your past and you can’t lose your future, but you can lose the present. Using drugs or alcohol deprives you of it and it’s the only thing you have. Don’t be wasteful with the amount of time you have. Life is long if you remain sober and know how to use it.

It’s not that we truly have a brief time to live, but that we are wasteful with the amount we have. Life is long if you know how to use it.

There is nothing to fear about death. All of us will die and there is nothing more noble than to approach death in a dignified way, knowing that you beat your addiction and lived life as a good person by adhering to your principles.

If anything happens that causes your life to come to an unexpected end, be prepared for it. Afterall, it will happen at one time or another.

Live every day as if it were your last one and the one that rounds out and completes your life.

Let spirituality provide you a larger purpose or meaning to life that motivates you to maintain sobriety as part of your greater mission and spiritual journey.

Keep a marble in your pocket to remind yourself of the principles that marble’s color represents. If you struggle with spirituality, keep a green marble with you.

Integrate spiritual practices into your daily routine. This will provide you order in your life.