Addiction is the physical manifestation
of a dysfunctional mental thought form
stemming from discomfort in your emotional body.
-Michael Brown
All addictions are the result of self-abandonment.
-Almine Barton
Your addictions are those parts of yourself
that are most out of control.
Those are the parts of yourself
that lose power to external circumstances.
-Gary Zukav
The root is not the drinking,
but the desire to drink.
-Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain"
Many addictions originate in feeding or soothing the body
when it is the soul which is aching.
-Caitlin Matthews
You are addicted to a feeling
that assists you in avoiding feeling something else.
-Michael Brown
Addiction is an attempt to control/sedate
discomfort in the emotional body.
-Michael Brown
Not why the addiction,
but why the pain.
-Gabor Mate
People with addictive behaviors
are often intensely aware of the irreconcilable paradoxes of life,
and therefore feel existential pain most acutely.
-Deepak Chopra
are often intensely aware of the irreconcilable paradoxes of life,
and therefore feel existential pain most acutely.
-Deepak Chopra
In order to release your addiction,
it is necessary to enter your inadequacies,
to recognize they are real,
and to bring them into the light of consciousness to heal.
-Gary Zukav
Recognition of your own addictions requires inner work.
It requires that you look clearly
at the places where you lose power in your life,
where you are controlled by external circumstances.
It requires going through your defenses.
-Gary Zukav
Addictions are not to any particular "thing"
but to the state of mind
that the experience of the "thing" provides.
-Howard Falco
Find the metaphor that the addictive object represents
and bring that metaphor to consciousness.
-Marion Woodman
Move into how strong your addiction is,
and ask yourself if the time is really right
for you to release this form of learning.
-Gary Zukav
If your addiction lingers,
ask yourself if you really want to release it,
because in your heart you do not.
-Gary Zukav
What is more important to you,
your wholeness and your freedom,
or the pleasures that you get from satisfying your addiction?
-Gary Zukav
