Drink and drugs are sins against the soul because they paralyze the will, without which soul-realization and salvation are impossible.

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

“Spending a night out drinking is akin to dismantling every piece of protection we have—our cognition, our decision making, our reaction time, our memory, our standards, our voice. If we thought about alcohol in this way—as something that undermines our collective momentum and personal agency and vitality and self-worth—what would that mean for