“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.” WayNeedsSoulStatesMotivationalCreativeDrugActivityUltimateOvercomingUnionsVariousCrushConformityAlcoholismSeparatenessOverworkInterpersonal Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.” PeopleSoulHelpingTechnologyCrazyFieldsDrugWeaponsTreatsWake UpWakingPsychiatristHealer Author:R. D. Laing
“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.” KindDifferentSoulEndsBodyEvilCausesCasesConditionsEffectsDrugSpeechDiseaseDelightDistressPersuasion Author:Gorgias
“As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.” KnowsMayHas BeensSoulStoriesAbleSchoolBrotherDrugDiedAidsMy SoulMy BrotherMatesCousinPublic SchoolSoul MateLife StoryLureMy CousinMy Soul Mate Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.” MenHeartChildrenSoulPerfectDrugAlcoholGreat MenTouchedBlessTobaccoHeart And SoulGoodwillPostersGod BlessFast FoodFunny Men Author:Ted Nugent
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility Author:Anne Roiphe
“We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.” GivingFeelsStillsSoulFeelingsPainOrderOpportunityMemoriesDrugAlcoholRageGoing AwayShopping Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.” IfsSoulFormHurtCreativityDrugOffersYour SoulFooling Around Author:Paul Stanley
“Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.” WaySoulTurnsHappenedDangerousDrugStealingYour Soul Author:Steven Tyler