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.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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