“Passion creates; addiction consumes—first the self and then the others within its orbit.”
“Any passion can become an addiction; but then how to distinguish between the two? The central question is: who’s in charge, the individual or their behaviour? It’s possible to rule a passion, but an obsessive passion that a person is unable to rule is an addiction. And the addiction is the repeated behaviour that a person keeps engaging in, even though he knows it harms himself or others. How it looks externally is irrelevant. The key issue is a person’s internal relationship to the passion and its related behaviours”
Excerpt From: Gabor Maté, M.D. “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.”
What are your passions?
Self portrait by Vivian Maier, a photographer whose passion for her art verged on addiction. But then again she suffered numerous emotional traumas which made her vulnerable to mental illness - hence obsession/addiction to her art. Fascinating woman and fantastic work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
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