Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
Interpretation
Addiction cannot be easily conquered; it thrives on our efforts to control it.
Gerald May highlights the complexity of addiction, suggesting that it is not just a matter of finding the right solution or remedy. Instead, attempts to control addiction often exacerbate the issue, as the nature of addiction feeds on the struggle to overcome it. This insight points to the necessity of understanding addiction as a deeply ingrained challenge that may require a different approach than straightforward attempts at mastery.
In practice
During a public health seminar discussing addiction treatment strategies.
Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
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