Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
They both, he said, break our “addiction to ourselves.”
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Drink and drugs are sins against the soul because they paralyze the will, without which soul-realization and salvation are impossible.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1
“The Big Book of AA,” Jamison notes, “was initially called The Way Out. Out of what? Not just drinking, but the claustrophobic crawl space of the self.”