You can use spirituality as your drug, as an avoidance, to deny your feelings, your reality.

Looking back, it becomes clear to me that ego, before and since I gave up the bottle, has been the chief architect of my problems in life. Though I've not often thought of myself as an egotist (what egotist ever really does?), I begin to see the many small but dangerous ways my ego has conspired against me, and does to this day. It has every bit the power to alter my perceptions of reality that alcohol ever did — and ultimately is just as deadly, perhaps more so.
You use spirituality as your drug,

You can experience this pain as a longing for God, putting that God

outside of yourself and giving him/her responsibility for your life.

You can use spirituality as your drug, as an avoidance, to deny your

feelings, your reality. You can space out on it.

You can use spirituality as your drug, as an avoidance, to deny your

feelings, your reality. You can space out on it.

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