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The Spirit is Willing

keith12
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Whether you understand the Spirit of Love through the ritual of an organized religion or by communing with Mother Nature in your own improvised way -- you will need to get in touch with that Higher Power if you're to win the battle of addiction.

The physical is not separate from the spiritual. No true physical transformation can happen without being accompanied by identical changes in mind and soul.

The pleasure of -- having a smoke -- like the pleasure in any habit, is both relaxing and stimulating, and therefore, it's a positive. The quality, truth and usefulness of the pleasure is not diminished by the fact that it was motivated artificially, or that it's a very brief and temporary high, or that it's ultimately deadly.

Negative feelings of tension and anxiety can be relieved in an instant by -- having a smoke. The smoker is able to "calm the nerves" with a cigarette break. In that sense, having a smoke is a physical tool used to put us back on the path toward higher consciousness. The act of -- having a smoke -- becomes a ritualized, two-minute meditation device. A pack of prayers.

This is the paradox of all addiction. Though the habit itself is destructive and negative, the psychic experience can be quite positive. Maintaining the ritual, while removing the harmful substance itself, could turn a bad habit into a powerful technique for tapping into higher levels of consciousness at the drop of a hat.

If you quit "having a smoke" -- you will need to account for the psychic shock and spiritual withdrawal symptoms. You'll need a new way to pray.

You can't buy replacement therapy for the soul at the Target pharmacy. It's Jesus, or Muhammed, or Mother Nature, or whatever you know it to be. Think on it twenty times a day. The real peace and lasting joy the Spirit of Love inspires -- far surpasses the temporary, fake pleasure of having a smoke. So it's a trade up, and we can live with that.
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