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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
Just as I have never met anyone who chose to become addicted, neither have I met anyone whose addictions did not, at their onset at least, provide for some essential human need.
Gabor Mate • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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