Prepent Day 6: Every Vice Has A Price
Image by Jacqueline Nicholls
By Amichai Lau-Lavie August 28, 2017
Each vice has a price. Simple pleasures or sweet sins can turn toxic and become trouble, crutches that, with help, sometimes, come to be thanked and discarded. Inside the safe circle of truth on this journey of self reflection I make a list of vices today, just three – guilty pleasures perhaps that could use reflection…maybe moderation. Facebook or other digital devices, substance and sex: Where and when does desire turn to distraction? Breath, brave, list, listen.
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