Self-addiction

I read something compelling today. Something that I need to be reminded of more often. I decided to share it with you. Maybe you need to be reminded of this truth as well.

The credit goes to Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz.

"The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.

God brought me to Graceland (the house of 5 guys Don lived with) to rid me of this deception, to scrub it out of the gray matter of my mind. It was a frustrating and painful experience.

I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self-addiction."