Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
Ken Keyes Jr.Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
Ken Keyes Jr.Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
Ken Keyes Jr.How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?
Ken Keyes Jr.I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
Ken Keyes Jr.By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.
Ken Keyes Jr.