When we desperately try to escape pain, we turn our pleasures into saviors and they prove to be the devil to us. A pleasure that is not wrong in itself becomes stained when it results in sins of omission. This is another tip-off that the line has been crossed, that you have stepped from solid ground and into the abyss. For example, you should call your sister, but you flip on the TV and watch for two hours, and it’s now too late to call. You should pay your
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