Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Alcoholics Anonymous
Awesome.
Addiction and Grace - Gerald May
I appreciated May broadening the scope of addiction: we can become addicted to most any substance or behavior, he says, even or especially mental behaviors like thoughts and beliefs. The only thing we can't become addicted to is grace, because it is completely free. It is not controllable or predictable. You might say it is arbitrary and not dependable. In this book May presents the spiritual life as a gradual loosening of addictions through the interplay of God's grace and a person's will.
His five markers for addiction: tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, self-deception, loss of will-power, and distortion of attention.
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