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The world addiction

Thomas M. Williams
Dec 29, 2023
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We’re addicts and we need to break our addiction. That’s our only hope, we must kick the habit. All right so what’s the addiction, what’s the destructive habit that we’re up against? The belief that good comes from the world. I’ve written about this previously and after writing about it and contemplating it, studying it further, and also observing my own patterns, I see that it’s a huge attachment and it’s causing a lot of trouble. So many people are suffering, and losing out, because they believe that what they truly want is found in the world, through some worldly form or another. Let’s take a closer look at this.

Why do people want worldly things? Because they want to be content and to feel at peace. Some will say that people want to survive but no one wants to just survive; most people will accept basic survival as an alternative to death but basic survival is not the goal. The goal is to be content and to feel at peace and this is what everyone wants. Now it is true that some peop…

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