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Yet - no matter how we call it - all addiction severely distorts perception: • It makes us react highly aggressive when our addiction is
challenged or discussed, - even when we are offered a
way out of it • It makes us use any - even the most absurd, unfounded -
argument to justify our craving It makes our whole life rotate around our addiction, -
and thus prevent a different orientation • It makes us abhor speaking about our weakness - to the
point that we avoid people who could help us • It lets us wear blinders we aren't aware of. These mechanisms run automatically. We cannot control them as long as we are fully under their sway.
And there's no point in admonishing an addicted person to give it up. It's a theme of life he chose to experience. He has to live through it, - has to learn how to handle the emotions caused by it, - he has to find his own way out of it, even if it takes this lifetime and beyond.
There is no 'magic' salvation from addiction, no spiritual 'wand-waving', no whitewashing, window-dressing, no explaining away. None of this ever helps to solve the problem, or lessen its effects, no matter how much we'd like the world to be gentler. The world is here to show us what's real within us. And that includes the full breadth of all possible experiences.
Whoever chose addiction as a theme needs to deal with his craving alone. If he wants out, only he himself can find the inner switch that makes him stop, - only he himself can raise
