directly, addiction is a state of compulsion, obsession, or preoccupation that enslaves a person’s will and desire. Addiction sidetracks and eclipses the energy of our deepest, truest desire for love and goodness. We succumb because the energy of our desire becomes attached, nailed, to specific behaviors, objects, or people.6 Once we are freed of the conception that addictions always involve some form of chemical dependency, we are able to discover commonalities in the pattern
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