Category Archives: JUNK

CODEPENDENCY, GOD, GOING DOWN, HIGHER POWERS, INTIMACY, JUNK, JUST SAY NO !, LOOK OUT, LOST, LOVE, SHELTER

Some other Hand than mine was on that helm during the night.

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Captain Arthur Rostron, reflecting on his safe passage among the icebergs to the lifeboats.

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“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”

― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

ADDICTIONS, ADDICTS, DRUGS, JUNK, PAIN, PLEASURE, SEX AND SENSUALITY, WITHDRAWALS

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

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Thomas De Quincey
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“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.
Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”

― William S. Burroughs, Junky