psychospiritual well-being. As we shall see, the attempt to shut down awareness of our inner disquiet is the source of all addictions. The price for managing passions by repression is high. Ego deflation is a slower way of killing yourself than ego inflation, but as it extinguishes your vitality it leaves you little more than a shell of a person. Healthy spirituality is not simply believing in God or going to church; it is having zest for living and staying glued together. As we move
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