Addicted to Suffering

"For a lot of us, we can look at others who seem to be struggling and say, 'Well, at least I'm not an addict. I'm not an alcoholic. I don't abuse drugs.' But truthfully almost all of us are addicts and the deepest thing we're addicted to, our drug of choice, is actually suffering. The very thing we want to be without is the thing we're addicted to, and that's suffering...there is a piece of us that wants to suffer because it is through suffering that we maintain this wall of separation around us. It is through our suffering that we can continue to hold onto everything we think is true. Wearing the veil of suffering, we don't really have to look at ourselves and say, 'I'm the one that's dreaming. I'm the one that's full of illusions. I'm the one that's holding on with everything I have.'" ~ Adyashanti, Falling into Grace

Image - There's no such thing as an old junkie.