addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.

All addicts exist inside a contradiction, at an unmappable crossroads between the forces of fate and individual will. Fate (genetics, circumstance, hard luck; not I) made me an addict. Will (power, determination, pure self) will allow me to overcome it. Perhaps that’s why twelve-step programs, instead of employing linear logic to lead people out of