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We are not born addicts. We are born into a pure, spacious, boundlessness of unconditional awareness that has no name. The further we get from this as we learn more and more about the game of living in this world the greater the opportunity for addictive impulses. Fortunately, the spaciousness never leaves us and we can learn to go back to it. This breaks down the addictive impulse.

When we start building in-roads to our true self, original nature — whatever we want to call it — we are unlikely to ever see a particular time or place where that has turned the tide to produce a skillful, less painful response to a given stressor. We need patience and understanding that we are part of a much larger process that unfolds gradually, usually imperceptibly, over time.