The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.
– Debra L Kaplan
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- achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it’s also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness. – Lou Gramm
- The world should have balance between evil and good, positive and negative. If one is missed there isn’t balance. – Deyth Banger
- Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. – Brian Greene
- One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect. – Dada Bhagwan
- Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem… – Max McKeown
- Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life. – Oli Anderson
- Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence. – Nelle Morton
- Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction. – Jeffrey Michael
- Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction. – Mango Wodzak
- We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction! – Harrish Sairaman
- Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not -œcure- partner abuse. – Lundy Bancroft
- The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? – Louise Bogan
- The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? – Louise Bogan
- The initial confrontation of the root is the most critical part of this journey. – Bruce Lengeman
- My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire – Seema Gupta
- There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
- …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
- Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last. – Ellen Hopkins
- People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. – Dermot Davis
- Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life – Ikechukwu Joseph
- The world to have a balance first it needs one liar and one guy who can discover who is lieing. That’s called balance! – Deyth Banger
- Maintain balance in life; not unlike a tire, a life out of balance results in a rough ride and needless wear and tear. – Glenn A Maltais
- Balance only happens in dynamic tension. Balance is giving not equal but appropriate attention to each of the various categories of your life. – Michael Hyatt
- As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth. – Jan Porter
- Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. – Aisha Mirza
- Don’t get hooked on taking identity in illness and diagnosis, there is only a body in balance or a body out of balance. Get your body balanced. – Nina Leavins
- Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world. – Christyl Rivers
- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Christa Allan
- Like petals what’s beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly – Nicola An
- Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex. – Bianca Sommerland
- The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage. – Alfred C Kinsey
- Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins… – T Rafael Cimino
- If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. – Leo Tolstoy
- The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage. – Darrel Ray
- The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions. – Girdhar Joshi
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- When you can’t escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need. – Shannon L Alder
- Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it’s not. – Rosalind Kaplan
- As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. – Linda Kaplan Thaler
- Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future. – Nelly Kaplan