on addiction

"As far as the question of the addictions goes, and how an inner authority goes against this, one has to first of all understand that addiction is a life or death matter.
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"One has to first of all care about one's self enough; else, nothing else helps."
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"If I look through myself in a real inner inventory (there's some addiction-recovery language for you!) I see that so many parts of me don't actually care about anything."

for all of this article:

http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de/2015/04/the-gatekeeper.html