More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. I kept half-measuring it, thinking I was going to at least get something out of this deal, and I kept getting nothing out of it”īookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Without a thorough transformation, you're the same guy, and the same guy does the same shit. There's a concept in recovery that says 'Half-measures avail us nothing.' When you have a disease, you can't take half the process of getting well and think you're going to get half well you do half the process of getting well, you're not going to get well at all, and you'll go back to where you came from. When I look back, I see why these vicious cycles can develop in someone who's been sober for a long time and then relapses and doesn't want to stay out there using, doesn't want to die, but isn't taking the full measure to get well again. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you know that every time you get clean, you'll have this great new feeling.Ĭut to: a year later, when you've forgotten how bad it was and you don't have that pink-cloud sensation of being newly sober. So you experience this jolt of joy that you're not where you came from and that in and of itself is a tricky thing to stop doing. You're happy to be alive, smelling the air and seeing the beauty around you.You have a choice of what to do. The oppressive feeling of being a slave to the drugs is still in your mind, so by comparison, you feel phenomenal. Once you've beaten yourself down with cocaine and heroin, and you manage to stop and walk out of the muck you begin to get your mind and body strong and reconnect with your spirit.

There's something intoxicating about the process of the comeback, and that becomes an element in the whole cycle of addiction. You go through this sensation of rebirth.

“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean.

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