addiction-is-a-progressive-narrowing

# Addiction is a progressive narrowing Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that give you pleasure, and at its core an illusion of invulnerability; vulnerability is its opposite and its exit. Consuming a thing without letting it consume you requires exactly the openness addiction forecloses. What broke it, in my experience, was not willpower but the abiding consciousness of the Spirit: a wider field of attention in which the narrowed channel loses its monopoly. Related: [[grace-humiliates-the-ego]], [[twelve-steps]], [[every-desire-serves-the-desire-for-god]]