Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions

by Russell Brand

we are all in prisons of varying categories.

Mantra (put this into your own words) ‘Divine Power, Supreme Truth, love within and without, guide me to a new way of being. Help me to put aside all previous thoughts and prejudices that I may be open to a “New Way”. I ask the creative power deep within me to guide me towards the person I was always meant to be, to seek out relationships and experiences that will move me closer to this Truth.’

The reason you must tackle your addiction no matter how moderate it may seem or whether it be socially sanctioned is it will, in the end, fail you.’

‘The spiritual life is like rowing a canoe away from a waterfall, if you stop rowing you are pulled backward.’ My condition will always lure me back, back to sex, drugs and selfishness.

‘The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,’ said Blake, Morrison agreed, and I tried to comply. But the wisdom is that there is no ‘palace’ and that the road of excess has led you nowhere and it’s time to go back home.