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Sunday 13 November 2011

The Spiritual Root of Addiction

"We are addicted because we are not living from our source; we have lost our connection to our soul. The use of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that is not really physical at its foundation. Drunkenness, for example, is really a forgetting of personal memory so we can experience the joy of the non-personal, the universe. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Self-destructive behavior is unrecognized spiritual craving. All addictions are really a search for the exultation of spirit, and this search has to do with the expansion of consciousness, the intoxication of love, which is pure consciousness."  ---Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra's work on addiction offers new insights into why addictions are SO DIFFICULT to QUIT.   Search for Deepak's books on addiction, they are well worth the read.  TJS

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