recovery

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself

Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until you’re scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.

True humility is the only antidote for shame.

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking

Recovery as spiritual journey:

First you desperately seek an object to bring you happiness, then, after many face plants, you realize no object can do that, so you stop running and finally face what is, where healing and recovery begin, but then, confronted by your naked wounds without your familiar escape hatch, that too becomes a chase, a far... See more

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”

—Paulo Coelho