Ultimately, at its core, all forms of addiction are an intense, profound search to find peace and bliss in God again, (or whatever name you use to describe the characteristics of the very root seed of your creation, where all is love and we are ONE.)
In coming to believe that we, upon taking this human form, somehow became separated from God, from Love and, the truth is we didn’t. Perhaps better put God never separated from us and at the end of the rainbow, the arch of our lives what we had been longing to find completion in …because it was always here all along and, you are it.
May you find that truth within yourself now.
God never left us because nothing ever can…seriously where can love go? it can’t go anywhere, it is all that is or ever was or ever will be. What we ache for, long for in our lives is our own true great nature, there is nothing without that is not within.
Every moment of suffering and travail, every moment of anger, fear, is a moment of grief. And the grief ultimately is always the same. In those moments of our grief, we think all love, God has left us, and again I say God didn’t because God cannot.
In a very real sense every moment we spend looking for ourselves outside of ourselves takes us away from that place we so yearn to be. Instead of looking outside we begin the journey within our own heart space and find the truth we have been looking for, within the silence and the love found there….beyond travail.
So in the end we discover there is absolutely nothing that we can ultimately fulfill ourselves in Gods image from the outside in, because God is within each of us, heaven is within.
In essence, we are that which we seek, a love beyond measure.
Rumi puts it well, when he says:
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”