Spread Your Mind

Stages of addiction.

“You think of habits as something apart from yourself, then obviously you would survive. You think of you as an identity and your habits as something else other than your identity, something which complements your identity or which works along with your identity or in some ways shapes it. Then you misunderstand the nature of habits. But if you understand yourself as nothing but habits, the accumulation of habits plus a little spark of something or other, you understand that you cannot destroy habits, you cannot get rid of habits, you must substitute something else for a habit you do not wish to have. Then you understand that habits are an intrinsic part of your Being, that is why they survive.”