LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #08 – the challenge of HOARDING (a.k.a. Greed) According to a recent study at UCLA, the United States (and much of rest of the western world) has finally reached “material saturation” – a social condition where obtaining additional things only brings marginal & fleeting emotional benefit; where the sheer quantity […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #08 – HOARDING (Part 2 – Identifying Materialism) “What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.” ~ Francois de Rochefoucauld One of the primary characteristics of all hoarding addicts is a tendency to make life a materialistic affair, […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #08 – HOARDING (Part 3 – A WAY OUT) “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” ~ John Lennon “Inspired by books and blog entries about living simply, Tammy Strobel and her husband began donating some of their belongings to charity in 2007. As […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #08 – HOARDING (Part 4 of 4 – a Solution: real Generosity) “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” ~ Frank Howard Clark Finally, regardless of how you deal with your addiction to your “stuff”, please note that there is only one underlying intention […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #09 – the challenge of SEX The drive to have sex is one of the most powerful desires known to humankind. According to Richard F. Taflinger, PhD, “Sex is the second strongest of the psychological appeals, just behind self-preservation.” Maybe this is because it is also one of the most […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #09 – SEX (a Joy-full alternative) “One thing I’ve learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don’t feel it; there’s probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.” ~ Norman Mailer I guess I need to start out this post by stating […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #10 – the challenge of ROMANCE (i.e. needing to feel “loved”) “We can never obtain Peace in our outer world until we make Peace within ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama While the last post dealt with an Addiction to distancing ourselves from others during our acts of superficial casual sex, this […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #10 – “ROMANCE” (Part 2 … a Way back to Freedom) “Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness can be easily abolished … You are not at the mercy of your unfulfilled cravings … You possess a True Self; a True Self […]
“Affection Addiction is when you think he is almost as sexy as Robert Redford, almost as noble as Mahatma Gandhi, almost as funny as Bill Murray, and almost as athletic as Michael Jordan … LOVE is when he actually IS all those things, a nd yet you set him free anyway. Avoidance Addiction is when […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #11 – the challenge of VANITY (a.k.a. “beauty”) (addicted to attractive appearance or amorous affirmation) “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” ~ Albert Camus “Every person in […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #11 – APPEARANCES (Part 2: a Beauty-full alternative … Solution #01) “The fixation on appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” ~ inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky As the first post on Appearance Addiction pointed out, fixating on “beauty” (either our own physical appearance or that of another) carries with it […]
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