The essence of alcohol is not that it gives joy, but that it is a chain that binds a person who has no love in order to turn his thirst for power over reality into an illusion. In fact, an alcoholic is a prisoner in a prison of Vice. Why was he punished? Because there is no love in it. For the fact that he loves himself alone and nothing more.
A midlife crisis is a situation when a person gets tired of being motivated by fear. Half my life has been spent in chains of fear. Tired! I want real love.
Once a man is freed from the bondage of Vice, all roads are open to him. Vices steal time and energy, hindering the pursuit of perfection and turning dreams into reality. In fact, vices are what hinder the magic of love.
What is the slavery of the will? Dependence on vices and pleasure. Tools like rituals, beliefs, habits, sublimation, true love, and so on will help you get rid of the chains of addiction.
Narcissism is almost always degenerates into one of the forms of dependence and addiction. There is an opinion that narcissism is primary, and addiction is just a fly trap.
Over-love is too much attention. A person gets used to attention and begins to feel the eternal insufficiency of this attention, try to attract attention, experience pain, sublimate it into anxiety and aggression.
Those who understand life are no longer afraid, because they understand that we have nothing to lose but our own chains. Everything we own owns us. All our joys are the reverse side of our torments.
Victory over the vices require courage. The defects of this chain of cowards running from their worries. A man of courage does not run like a coward from his problems.