In My Experience, Addiction Is an Attachment to Something Pleasurable
You can be addicted to sweets, or addicted to drugs, or addicted to love, or addicted to work, or addicted to power. If it’s pleasurable, the mind can get attached to it.
And the addictive mind doesn’t care that the substance brings pain along with the pleasure. It doesn’t care that there is poison mixed with sweetness.
The mind just grabs it, focusing first on the sweetness, and then later on the regret of having eaten poison.
But There Is a Substance More Addictive Than Bitter-Sweet
And that is the pure delight of finding your own sweet truth.
When I find my own truth, I experience sweetness without a pinch. Because there is no poison mixed in with it. It feels like pure freedom.
That’s why I find that other addictions fall away the more I taste this true sweetness in my heart. Sweetness mixed with poison just can’t compare.
And That’s Why I Do The Work
Each time I answer the four questions of The Work with an open mind, and find genuine examples to the turnarounds, I find layer after layer of my own truth. And it is sweet. It satisfies me. And it keeps me in my practice of The Work.
Thank goodness truth is addictive!
I invite you to experience this sweetness five days a week by participating in the Inquiry Circle forum. Find a pace that suits you, and enjoy the support of a loving group as you do your work and find your truth.
Have a great week,
Todd
“Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.” — Byron Katie, Loving What Is.
