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Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Addiction, Asking, Drug, Hopes, Relief
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We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

Create, Created, Mind, Our World, Responsibility, World

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

Ache, Addiction, Addictive, Behaviors, Hurt, Stress

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

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The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

Addiction, Difference, Differences, Divine, Flames, Passion

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

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