“Addictions even as they resemble normal human yearnings are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is in the pursuit and the acquisition of the desired object not in the possession and enjoyment of it. The greatest pleasure is in the momentary satisfaction of yearning. The fundamental addiction is to the fleeting experience of not being addicted. The addict craves the absence of the craving state. For a brief moment he is liberated from emptiness, from boredom, from lack of meaning, from yearning, from being driven, or from pain. He is free. His enslavement to the external, the substance, the object, or the activity consists of the impossibility in his mind of finding within himself the freedom from longing or irritability.” --Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:19:31 +0000
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