Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
Addiction is the negative side of spiritual seeking. We are looking for an exultation of the spirit; but instead of fulfillment we get a short-lived physical thrill that can never satisfy the chronic, gnawing emptiness with which we are beset.
Robert A. Johnson • Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy
Addiction is a spiritual disease, a disease of the soul, an illness resulting from longing, frustrated desire, and deep dissatisfaction—which is ironically the necessary beginning of any spiritual path.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior
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Addiction is in all of us. This argument has come to matter a great deal to me. The reason I care about it is that when I truly felt this notion in my bones, reading accounts of addiction and recovery from across history, it was profoundly reassuring and comforting. As I write at more length in the book, I developed a sense of fellowship with all t... See more
Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing
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addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Addiction is a modern name and honest description for what the biblical tradition called “sin,” and medieval Christians called “passions” or “attachments.”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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