Kylia Jones

“The value of sensuality is that it provides you with pleasure from the pain of itself.

Sensuality touches you with pain, but at the same time, it offers you a solution for that same pain. It’s just like racketeering: “Okay, if you pay me, I’ll make your problems go away, problems that I put on you so that you will pay me”. So you get extorted by your own sensuality, your own desires. Sensual desires hurt, and giving in to them will remove that hurt and reward you with more pleasure. It’s a win-win. Or so it seems, until you realize that the true win is to not be pressured by the desires in the first place. The win is not having to pay the racketeering thugs for your safety; the win is to not have the thugs pressure you at all.

The more you give in to the pressure of sensuality, the more you will have to give in since its nature can never be changed. The Nature of sensuality is that it hurts, burns, and pressures you.”
― Ajahn Nyanamoli Thero, Dhamma Within Reach: A Guide to Endurance, Patience and Wisdom

“God can free a thousand slaves, but he could have freed more if only they knew they were slaves.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Constant Reminder - Constant Deterrent”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Your new found hope is not in just a wish or hope for good luck, but your hope is in the loving and all powerful God of the Bible.”
― Greg Schmalhofer, The Twelve Keys of Faith-Based Recovery: How to Be Successful in Recovery By Embracing Key Biblical Truths