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A World of Your Own
You can’t live with meaningless suffering.
So you have avoidance — addicts do not live in the here-and-now.
They are always going to stop drinking next Monday, or they’re going to stop eating next Monday, but meanwhile eat as much as they can between now and Monday.
Everything is going to be all right in the future … but here and now?
They are never where they are; they are always running, or dreaming about the wonderful past, or the wonderful future.
So they are never in the body. The body lives in the present. The body exists right now.
But an addict is not in the body, so the body suffers. Uninhabited.
And there’s where that terrible sense of starvation comes from.
~Marion Woodman,
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Up to a certain point, it is necessary for a man to live his life in the world in which he finds himself, and to make the best of it. But beyond that point, he must create a world of his own. And the greatest thing about life is that it is always giving us the opportunity to create something new. It is never too late to start over, to make a fresh beginning, to blaze a new trail.
~Jack London
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