“All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Anyone who is breaking new ground and teaching something new is going to come up against protests from those that don’t want to view their beliefs in a differing way. I have had a fair few trolls who have violently opposed QS because it makes them question their own understanding on addiction and the potential for freedom, after a lifetime of being told that freedom is not possible. It can be uncomfortable to have your very foundation of perception be pulled up and challenged, but once accepted we can indeed turn our beliefs around to the opposite direction.

On our new sober path we can first be ridiculed for no longer drinking or eating crappy foods
Perhaps our friends and families oppose our decision
But once it has been accepted it simply becomes who you are.

*this blog was first published in January 2018

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