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When addiction recovery meets mystical metaphors

I've been sober for six months but I keep reading about Hafez and wine as metaphor, and I'm confused about whether my addiction was actually spiritual thirst I was trying to fill wrong.

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The seeker recognizes that destructive behavior may have been misdirected spiritual longing.

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