there’ll be hell to pay….
“there’ll be hell to pay. just put it on my tab.” Dalla – Perfect Photo
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Addiction / Samsara
The Wisdom in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean III’
“For certain you have to be lost to find the places that cannot be found.” Captain Barbossa “It’s not getting to the land of the dead that’s the problem, it’s getting back.” Captain Barbossa “For what we want most, there’s a cost must be paid in the end.” Calypso
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Affliction vs Addiction
Here is the foundation of addiction – that it has no foundation, that it is rupture, co-rupture, corruption. You get into an addiction, a habit, because it balances something. There is a kind of existence that feels ‘centred’, and something about you, or your existence, an affliction, is pulling you off that centre, and the
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debt
Debt: it’s what we all got, I owed it to myself, I went out and bought, I just thought I ought, to own, to own, to own, to owe.
‘Forebearance’ and Usury
The hunger for quick gratification or relief is the prime generator of wealth based on lending and debt. Contemporary western culture takes debt for granted, and the wealthiest institutions in the world are based on profiting from that debt. Debt, and the burdens associated with the logarythms of interest, are a perfect paradigm of addictive
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The Paradox of Acceptance
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers Reflecting on the paradox of acceptance in addiction, or any other behaviour which one finds abhorrent in oneself (or in others, for that matter): There is, in ‘Christianese’, a saying; “love the sinner, but not the
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Bomb Shelter
Most of religion is dedicated to creating a bomb shelter and calling it hope. I’m gonna build me a bomb shelter and call it hope, I’m gonna fix me a faith ’cause I need my dope, I’m gonna climb right in when I’m at the end of my rope, ’cause I don’t want to fall
Addiction is a sick psychle
Psychically we grow cyclically. Addiction is a sick psychle.
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Ruminations on Emotional and Spiritual Care for presentation to 5 Cardio PCC Rounds
Spirituality is the principle of psychic growth. Human consciousness is the only living entity that can choose not to grow. Psychically we grow cyclically. Addiction is a sick psychle. Emotions are the symptoms we have to read the spiritual malaise. Faiths, religions, can enable this growth or, alternately, they can ice growth. So, the tradition
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