Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

by Russell Brand

It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation and tepid despair, because the problem is ultimately ‘being human’ in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.

the idea that we are "curiously ill-equipped" is interesting. it's certainly not for a lacking in capability so much as it's a conditioning that we've created.

beyond today your projections of life are conceptual.

That’s why we call this process Recovery; we recover the ‘you’ that you were meant to be.

It is only by finding a more powerful magnetic pull that you can change the patterns completely.

Crisis is almost a blessing providing cessation of a kind, and with it, the opportunity for change.

My perceptions of reality, even my own memories, are not objective or absolute, they are a biased account and they can be altered.

A modern view of prayer could be ‘an earnest attempt to commune with the aspect of your consciousness that is untainted by learned thought patterns or fluctuations caused by biochemical impulse’.

I like the humility of placing my life in a context that exceeds the pursuit of my own petty, trivial desires.

how we treat each other – how we manifest or deny love – I feel relates to a deeper force even than our primal drives and appetites.

It feels so physical, that’s why I suppose the call to action is so strong, either to get high or drunk or to have sex, something that changes the way that I feel.

That we give up any expectation of what meditation should be and allow it to be what it is.