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Russell Brand

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“infinite individual freedom, infinite ways of being human. We must all take responsibility for becoming the person we're intended to be. And if you don't know who that is, you find someone who does and you find a system and a program that can help you. And we'll all do our best together. And it's going to be glorious, glorious. But beyond glorious, it is necessary.”
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“Kingdom of heaven is spread upon the earth and man sees it not. It's already here. It comes from inside your consciousness. You awaken, you believe it's possible to change, you act like it's going to happen. That's how these things unfold. It's happened again and again. The miracles of transition and change, the great beauty of science and medicine and technology. When it is freed from its tendrils, when it is untethered from the mendacious objectives of a system that sees all things as dominion for materialization and commodity, when it is freed from that, you will see the true genius of our scientists, the true genius capable in technology. If we can just address the model, if we can just have as an agenda an awareness that we are just on one little rock infinite space right now, that we're all participating in this one centralized idea, and yet infinite diversity.”
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“The doctors that they have real power, that those are their hospitals. Wouldn't it be better if both sides of our political conversation, I'm talking about the United Kingdom right now, hadn't agreed already that privatization is the way to go and they're not going to do anything about it? I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with capitalism in its basic format of we create a product and the people want the product, then look at that. We made a little bit of money. I'm talking about this gigantic, metastasized monster devouring everything right down to spirit. We must recognize where centralized authority is coalescing most, and this we must address, this we must address, whether it is financial, corporate or state power, wherever it is possible, we the people, we the people, those three magical constitutional words, if they were listened to, if they were lived by, it's already there.”
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“Ristribute the control of municipal facilities to those that are affected by them do not have water companies in the United Kingdom like Thames Water owned elsewhere in China or Canada or Kuwait or Qatar or wherever those facilities are held have municipal facilities run by the community that is affected by them. I'm not talking about renationalization. I'm talking about community. The community runs its water wherever possible. I recognize that there is some complexity when it comes to electricity, municipality running roads, running hospitals. But who among us has ever been into a hospital and not marveled at the beauty, the compassion, the ingenuity, the commitment, the devotion of the people that work there? Wouldn't it be better if the people that clean the floors in the hospital felt that they were invested in it, that it was their hospital, the nurses that work there?”
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“Bring power as close as possible to the people affected by it. Default to decentralization and localization wherever possible. Of course this will not immediately yield perfection, but have you looked out of your window? We are not competing with perfection. We are competing with corruption. So what do we want most of all we want true democracy? All the values that people espouse are the values we should be practicing. They say the world does not need more people to believe in God just for those of us that do to start acting like it, to start acting like you believe God is real.”
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“People to feel the air with toxicity and hate, but because we know that if we try to control it, who has the right? Who are we granting the right to now? Have you investigated any of these organizations? Have you investigated their funding, their affiliations, their agenda, their imperative? Because to some degree I am sorry to report that I have and I have found them wanting. They will not be getting my consensus for authority anytime soon, and I would offer you this you have more in common with the people you are fighting with, with those you most loath, whatever Hugh, persuasion, or a cultural garment you've conveniently strewn upon them, then the people that are saying that they will protect you. The institutions that are saying they will protect you.”
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“With one another, than that Van divides us, and it is our duty to reach out in particular to the people we disagree with in a spirit of love and good faith. Firstly then, identify, oh, am I reaching out in good faith to people I already agree with? No, no, no, no, no. That's not it. Disagree with. I disagree with that on this important hot button topic of guns or pro-life pro-choice or identity or tradition or progression. I disagree with them and I respect your right. I respect and I love you and I know that I do not know what you know, that I am not God. I am not God. I do not know. I do not have any authority over you, but I believe that together we can achieve a consensus. And this consensus must be founded on good faith. We must allow one another to communicate in good grace and openness. We cannot yield to censorship, not because we want to.”
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“Well, a argument might be that we are recognizing that there is nothing in our evolution to suggest that we live in cultures of three hundred million people who live by one ideology, that we have to truly respect diversity, that we have to acknowledge that many of our most influential and powerful systems do not have our best intentions in mind that they in fact benefit from ongoing cultural conflagration. If we can do one great service in this cultural space, I recognize that part of your goal and your mission is to awaken latent potency in individuals in honour of your own journey and it is a great mission if I may say. But part of this mission must be for us to learn this simple lesson. We have more in common.”
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“Then we can maybe sift through different. Also, we live in such a curated space that it's difficult to discern what people are actually angry about sometimes. What is it As one of my great teachers says to me, what is it? Don't get caught up in the phenomena, the epiphenomena, the distractions, the static. What is it that you are trying to understand? What is it you're trying to do”
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“Yes, I agree I agree, I agree. No doubt. One of the challenges, it feels like we have culturally, Stephen, is we are unable to observe the difference between symptom and cause Symptom and cause and obviously, as with matters medical, cause is what we must analyze. Cause is what we must understand. There's no point saying you shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that. If you have a set of values that are pretty simple, I call them sesame street values, kindness, love, service. That's going to take care of a hell of a lot if you have kindness, love, service. It's going to take care of a hell of a lot. Are you being kind right now? No. You have gone off track, mate. You've gone off track, you're not being kind. Are you being off service? No.”
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“That is you're going to forego this now because in the future this, you know, without that, you will not forego. You will consume now. You will consume now. You will not understand. You will not understand your role. So it takes a long while. I've said it before, Stephen, but I'll say it again because it bears repeating thou shalt worship no other gods than me because otherwise you will worship them gods. You will worship pleasure, money, fame. Them gods are greedy little gods too. They're easy little deities to start worshiping. And the problem with the worship of those gods is you lose the principle of the divine, the interconnectivity, the pleasure is not the result. Pleasure is a byproduct. Pleasure is an inadvertent byproduct, please God, of doing the right thing.”
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“in order to perform them duties. So, of course, yes, I feel like when you feel the incumbency of adulthood upon you early due to the conditions of your domestic trial there, you will have to, as they say, man up or woman up. You will have to, but it won't be real because it can't be real because it's not only a set of endocrinal imperatives, it's also a system of instruction as laid out in that, as laid out in the previous anecdote, the Cambellian analysis of the anthropological conditions of that aboriginal group there. So really, until you find other adults, elders that are like, I know what I'm doing, you don't need to worry. I'm stronger than you. It's going to be okay. I'll look after you. It's all right. Do this. A father, a father like a father.”
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“You can't fake that, or you can fake it. And I did fake it, and that is what people do. They fake it. They fake it. But in a sense, maybe you need another adult to make you that. You need to be initiated. You need a code. You need to know that it's about duty and responsibility, that it's not all just about swagger and personal achievement. And like many young men, I joined the group of lost boys. I found men, young young men, kids, kids, because if I met them now, that's what they were, is kids a couple of years older than me. That becomes your tribe. Unless you have hierarchies and systems of acculturation and inculcation that are based on higher values, remember our earlier point about moral authority and trust, who you're going to give it over to, you'll create your own one. You'll create your own little community without elders, without elders that are reliable and trustworthy and dutiful and understand the nature of sacrifice, sacrifice of themselves.”
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“This good analysis. But, you know, really my mother struggles her struggles. She had to go through that. Bravely she's done it. What life force that woman has in her. And to pick up on a point within your question, you cannot fake being a man or a woman or an adult, let's say a word that doesn't have any cultural load to bear.”
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“The boys at a certain age are dragged away from the mother and they make much of it. They wear masks the men of the village. All the men apart father, all the women apart mother, and of course there are categories for other forms of identity too which they honour and revere, often in the form of the shaman who is beyond gender identity incorporating both. You see reflections of this to this day, even in monotheistic faiths where the priest wears what appears to be neutral or androgynous attire, distinguishing them from the rest of the community, yet honoring them and revereing them.”
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“One of the best examples I ever heard, and I feel I see somewhere in Freud or maybe in Joseph Campbell, is that I feel this is some Australian Aboriginal tribe that they, what they do, and I think they're doing this now, I figure, I don't know, you know, I'm putting this stuff together. You know how it goes.”
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“I felt the significance of anthropology, the significance of what the original condition might be. I do not use these terms to suggest there is some one template that could be imposed and stamped upon everyone. I would never take away people's individual rights or struggles, particularly those connected to obvious and evident civil rights, cultural and identity issues. Those are their stories for them and I support them in those stories. But when it comes to how human beings might have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, it appears we do well when we are a connected unit that communicate together in order to achieve a common goal. Time and time again, when anthropologists and even contemporary psychologists”
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“One way or another, because I can think of examples top of my head of all of those. I think it feels that you are prematurely invited to be a man. In fact, when I was thinking about our interview, Stephen, because you'll be glad to know I thought about you before I met you.”
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“Broadly, fatherless men feel a big burden, and they do not feel safe in this world. A big burden, not safe in this world, if they're with the mother, I think they feel it is their duty to look after the mother. If they are without other parents, I mean, you know, if without either parent, my God, who knows what kind of chaos? And I'm not saying there is only one way and that there is only template, but one template. Because I'm already talking about a subset. I'm talking about a subset of people that have become drug addicts and alcoholics in order to deal with these kind of challenges. But also I know people that don't identify as addicts in exactly that way. And still the absence of the father and that also, by the way, you know, could be food therefore, it could be a breakup of the relationship or it could be because the father doesn't have the emotional lexicon to connect.”
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“I would say fatherless men, like I don't want to be so solipsistic as to make this entirely about me, he says 20 years into a career. I think, and I experience with fatherless men who I deal with a lot in my spiritual life is to be around men a lot that I'm in recovery, both being mentor by and mentoring and recovering mutually in support communities.”
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“When I'm trying to formulate, and I know I'll make errors as a parent, of course I will. We all do. And as you will discover, it is our duty to wound our children, not our duty. It is a necessity beyond a duty. It is a tendency. It's just going to, they're going to end up wounded. They have to. They're going to have to find a second mother, a second father. They're going to have to. They're going to have to. So It's not anybody's fault. It's not even the system's fault. I'm kind of grateful to all of it now. I'm grateful to these institutions. I'm grateful to the mainstream media. I'm grateful to these governments. I'm grateful that they have set out the instruments required for the change that we will encounter in the coming few decades.”
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“Today sat here in Shoreditch as an adult man. I wouldn't just walk around Essex and go to find a couple of working class kids and say, why don't you and you take responsibility for my spiritual development? They did their very best they could and I couldn't love them more. I couldn't love them more. But my mum, she had cancer like eight times in a few years. My dad's got his own deal. He's got his own deal. And I recognize what it is to feel strong individualistic further. I love them. I love them.”
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“Stealing your data. Just make someone tap. I agree. Don't stop spying. Continue to spy, continue to accumulate the data. Just tap agree. You agreed to be spied on. This is bureaucracy. This is these are the observable tendrils and symptoms of a centralized authority that is not necessarily sentient, occultist or overtly corrupt, but a tendency to accumulate power, to dominate resources that is plainly observable in the geopolitical dramas that play out in our time, the ecological crises, and the evident mainstage players that occupy our current time, many of whom have not been elected to get there. I'm talking about unelected acronym organizations that have a great deal of influence in the world today. So the reason I don't trust is not, I love my mum and dad, Ron Brand, Bab's brand.”
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“It watched them, watch what they're telling you, watch what they're telling you. I give it to my own children and I hope I'm not doing them a disservice. Question authority, question it, question it. And of course, this makes bedtime difficult because who is the person telling them bedtime? But it makes schooling. Of course, institutions have an inertia. Institutions have a tendency. They might start off with, we're going to educate these kids to be creative and individuals. But in the end, it's going to be about health and safety. In the end, it's going to be about fire drills. In the end, it's going to be about a set of a bureaucratic enmeshment and maze that prevents individual freedom. The great David Graver, God rest his soul. He was a communist, so he maybe wouldn't thank me for saying that. David Graeber says that out of one of our great dialectics against Soviet communism, for example, was that they were bureaucracies that prohibited individual freedom. But look at the bureaucracies we live within now. How do they solve the problem of spying?”
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“Coping with broken systems. And I would say from agriculture onwards, systems of aggregation, centralization accumulation that can't enshrine the rights of the individual except for a certain set of individuals that we are living in a system that's about centralizing power and increasing authority, diminishing individual freedom, using whatever rhetorical tricks are required, safety, convenience, whatever is required to achieve this centralised authority. Now, so I now feel, like you said before, there are other ways that you could have ended up being this man in this chair. Now I am glad that I have been deeply schooled in mistrust of authority, that it's almost like it burns in me.”
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“Now I would describe it as a very deep love of God and a great deal of respect for other people's individual liberty and freedom and the idea that any central authority would impose that without clear consent achieved through democracy and community dialogue seems ridiculous to me. But obviously it's biographical and interpersonal that the circumstances of my life have shown me that the people one way or another that are in positions of authority on the various scales of authority that most people encounter, familial, social, educational, have not been able to fulfill the duties required of them. Of course, as a person a certain way down the path now because in the words of Philip Larkin, they in their turn were fucked up too. That we are just part of a long lineage of people.”
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“Guess at some point we're going to have to trust ourselves, but it went embarking on this journey, it's not easy to lean into intuition, and it isn't easy to trust others. I find trust very, very difficult. I don't know about you, mate. I don't know what kind of experiences you had there as a young man in Plymouth. But for me, trust ain't my go-to. That's not my go-to. It takes me a little while. My strategy is do not put yourself in a situation where you require trust. Why? Because maybe people are going to let you down bad. Maybe. Maybe the system's authority, be they educational, legal, judicial. Maybe they're going to let you down. Maybe they can't be relied on.”
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“How I have handled this is I've been fortunate enough through crisis and despair to find myself primarily connected to a group of other people the same as me who cannot cope with reality unless they drink or use drugs and those people provide me with a paradigm for moving forward and a program and I like that word program because it's both a sort of very old fashioned word but also an ultra modern word in terms of Software, for example, thanks, mate.”
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“Interesting, isn't it? Yes, possibly, yes, quite likely, yeah. Because I feel we're in a crisis of authority. Most people don't trust the government. Most people don't trust the media. Many people don't trust the judiciary or state authority. And I would have to confess that I am inclined to agree that we are in a true crisis of authority. Who indeed would you trust to say I will do what is right? I will do what is right for you. I will do what is right for the community and trust that they are speaking on behalf of a set of principles that could be somehow universal and truly valid.”
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“I recognize those words are pretty loaded, but I'm saying that if you can envisage a benign and loving mother or father rather than authority and if you do consider authority to be mostly malign, I could not identify more strongly. My distrust and my dislike of authority is a deep, deep fuel in me. I do not like being told what to do. I do not like it, it is a big, big part of my religion. I have to stop myself reflexively doing the opposite of what I'm told. If someone speaks to me authoritatively. Someone asked me to help them, I will do my level best to help them. If someone tells me what to do, I find it very, very difficult indeed not to do the opposite. Anarchist calisthenics, break rules every day just to remind yourself that you belong to something higher than a set of systems potentially imposed by a malevolent force.”
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“Is an acknowledgement that there is a requirement for growth and indeed that I'm no longer prescribing what outcomes I want. It's curious. There are often paradoxes in this. So for me, mate, it's like first you admit the powerlessness and the nature of the problem. Second, I believe it's possible to change. And I based that on, hang on a minute, these people used to have that problem and they've changed. So what if I do what they did? Then maybe my life will change. These are all things derived from 12-step ideology. The third thing is accept someone else's plan, accept someone else's help, surrender. Because in the end, this is the think perhaps the hardest contradiction, at least I find it very hard contradiction to live with. and a return to the original condition activated surrender russell is no longer in charge russell is no longer in charge russell is a servant there is a master i am in the service of this now in”
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“The third component, first one, acknowledgement of powerlessness, second one, belief change is possible, third principle it will not come from the same map and rubric that you've been running on up till now. You are going to have to import new ideas. You will need help. That help I would offer you might be of a divine nature, prayer, meditation, humility to ask for something greater than my individual want, my individual preferences, not just some wish list passed up to the cosmic Santa. It is an”
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“Problem and manageability. You're sad. I'm using, in fact, the example you use someone in a city hold up, left with a familial and cultural conditioning that has left them at odds, maladjusted to a maladjusted world. One, there is a problem. Life is unmanageable. Two, you've got to believe it's possible to change. If you don't believe it's possible to change, you will never be able to marshal your inner resources towards making that change. One way that this change can be made is through mentorship, even if that mentorship is in the abstract, even if you've just chosen, hey, this person seems to be able to have done that. He says that he used to feel weak, inferior, incompetent, impotent. And he says now that he doesn't feel those feelings. So maybe if I do what they did, maybe I can change also. So this, so this.”
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“Unhappiness, sadness. Like, in a sense, that's like one thing that's good about that is you're trusting your personal integrity. It's not like, oh, you're delirious. Why are you not happy? Why is this not working for you?”
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“Well, typically, Stephen, the journey begins with a departure from home, interestingly, whatever home is, you have to leave, you have to leave the familiar, the place that you are familiar with. Often this is induced by crisis, a crisis that you cannot avoid or delay or defer, a crisis of some kind may come. Of course this can be an inner crisis, a moment of despair. Often a psychic breakdown can be can precipitate change transition awakening. I suppose what you have to, one way that you can do it, this is the way that I would do it, the way that I have done it. firstly to acknowledge the problem of my condition, to admit there is a problem and that my life has become unmanageable. These are not my ideas.”
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“Yeah, it's been mechanical, it's biomechanical, it's biomechanical. The Swamis, the masters, the rishis, the yogis, and the seishis, and interestingly, mate, Swami means he who is with himself, they are able, I believe, to observe it. There it goes, but it's not me. Your thoughts are merely the first layer of the external world. They would have a weight. They would have a charge if we had the instruments to observe them. Instead of identifying with my thoughts and locking into them, oh, look, there he goes, little Russell, thinking it matters if everyone loves him. He's thinking that again. Why wouldn't he think that with that little childhood? Why wouldn't he think that with that little society that he lived in? Some compassion.”
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“What is it? Again, with CS Lewis, what is that you're feeling? You know, you know if someone is good to you and treats you in an open-hide way and you cuss them or muck them about or diss them or slander them, something in you goes, you shouldn't have done that. Well, what is that? What is that in your belly? Not the God of the heavens, not the gods of the Old Testament or the Quran, although they're all fantastic, but the God that's in your belly telling you that wasn't right. That wasn't right. You have to, in the end, answer to this God. And as I say, the ingredients are all present in this sense, hmm, there's something I'm supposed to be doing. There's something I'm supposed to be doing. It's only some tweaks, I find. You know, I use my program for recovery over a 20-year period from the smack head crackhead that I was. And I also use it in five seconds when I'm like, when I'm caught again, as I will be, as I am capable of being, when I feel temptation, when I feel inferior, when I feel that someone is trying to impose status on me, I feel all the machines fire up.”
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“They're killing the wrong thing. They're killing the wrong thing. They're killing the host vessel. But in the end, it becomes everything you need to become recovered is present in your addiction. Everything you need to become awakened is present in your somnulence. How could it not be? Where else could Nirvana be back here? So what I'm saying is, is in that loneliness, in that sense of I'm not good enough, I'm worthless, are all the ingredients awaiting reorganization? And perhaps this is what a program, a system, a practice, and some mentors and some peers can provide. And I think it is different for all of us. But the failure is the sort of the sense, isn't it? Because you ask an important question, Stephen. You ask many important questions, Steven. But this one in particular is...”
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“This connection loneliness, despair, a sense of worthlessness, but even in these almost Flaws and failings offer is the DNA of success. I notice a lot with addiction, of course, and forgive me using this framing. It's just the best model I've ever been given to not kill myself, is that addicts are so close to realizing it. Nothing is real. Nothing matters. Not even your identity is real. Destroy it. Destroy the self. Destroy the self. The self is not real.”
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“What I would say is if you are using impermanent means to achieve a permanent solution, you can only fail. If you are mistaking the vehicle for the self, for the essence of the self, you can only fail. If you have not interrogated, who is this in here? What is this subjective experience that only I am having? How do I deal with the tension of the paradox and remember all energy comes from polarity? All energy comes from polarity, that I am infinitesimally small to the point of being absolutely irrelevant in a cosmic framing, and yet all reality takes place solely as far as I know within my consciousness.”
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“Well, I wouldn't suggest that there is but one path as they say, as Krishna Murti says, truth is a pathless land. We got to find it ourselves. But that said, there are templates, paradigms, conditions, and practices that might help us. So I'm not making a judgment on anyone else's path. My spirituality is not about you should be doing this and you should be doing that. My spirituality is I should be doing this. I should be doing that. My morality is about my conduct. If someone else wants me to judge them or help them or guide them or aid them and I'm able to, then it is my duty to do it.”
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“Than I am. My mum, my wife, they're all better at it than I am. They do it natural because they're not like mobilized by this sort of primordial yearning that can become my fuel. It ain't no easy task to turn all that gunge, that swamp gunge, that Neolithic jet fuel into love of one another.”
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“The streets of Shoreditch, where I have used, where I've scored, where I know the back streets are brick lane, where there are enclaves, where they serve up Muslim men wearing full regalia that would never deal with that kind of business. It's against the Quran, but serve it up to slip down them rap runs, to see it trace across the silver page, to lose myself in smack world, and to come back here now with a different way, a different way. The city has changed and I have changed and no man crosses the same river twice and no man visits the same shoreditch twice because the man is different and shoreditch is different. Are we looking for the same thing then? I was looking for the same thing then. Like when I was looking around then for smack and crack and all of that, I was looking for the things that I'm looking for now. If I'm not very rigorous in my spiritual practices, and they're sort of simple. I know I can use a lot of long words. It's a thing I like doing. I get off on it and stuff. But spirituality ain't complicated. My nan's better at it.”
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“Somehow this connection implies a set of ethics, morals and principles. It's not just, oh wow, God is one, let's lose ourselves in some hedonistic revelry that pleasure is not an end point, that service is our way of acknowledging this unity. So spirituality for me is a survival technique. You won't get very far in this world without it. And if you don't have it in a declared, explicit, and I don't mean doctrinal way, I mean personal, but somehow connected and communal way, you will try to create God. You will try to create spirituality from your preferences. Your preferences will become your God. I prefer it when people talk to me like this. I repel this, my aversions and my preferences will become my religion. And this is, I'm capable of that today. If I don't, I'm lucky to be such a craven, mad smackhead. And it's nice to walk around.”
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“Spiritual literally means not material. That's what it means. It's not observable or measurable. The problem perhaps that we have nowadays is that we live in a quantitative reality where all things are measurable, where all things are predicated on rational principles. But all of us know what love is. All of us know what intuition is. All of us know as C.S. Lewis beautifully outlines in mere Christianity when we have transgressed against some moral code that appears to have been instilled in us and in spite of the advocacy and campaigning of evolutionary biologists seems to appeal to some new monistic tendency nuministic meaning simply a sense of awe, a sense of oneness, a sense of glory, a sense of glory you might experience at sunrise or sunset or looking into the eyes of a loved one or even a stranger and knowing that the connection is real, knowing that the unitive force is real.”
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“The various steps that have led you to where you are. And just again, I think to reiterate that that's why I mentioned addiction and recovery early on, because it provides you with access to an archetype. But this is who I was. This is the way that I lived. This is the way that I tried to handle the challenges that life gives you, impermanence, temporality, death, inequality, hypocrisy, destruction, all of these things that sort of are pervasive, whether that's cultural or simply part of being in an temporal and spatial reality Recovery gives you a different set of tools, a different way to deal with those same challenges, which for want of a better word I will call spiritual, a spiritual solution to what I regard now as a spiritual problem, once again tagging that idea of connection that you've helped us set up this conversation using.”
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“Yeah, or also know. What I suppose I'm saying is I accept this, the path that I've walked and that I'm sort of continuing to walk. And I suppose anyone that's engaged in the process of recovery has to, as a part of that, accept the various chapters, episodes that have led to that. I mean, I think that's part of self-acceptance, part of self-acceptance is to appreciate and understand.”
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“Well, it happened now. Now it has happened. So the answer is 100%, of course, absolutely indefatigably. This is the reality that was designed for you internally that your consciousness is creating this reality. This reality is not coming externally at you. This consciousness is unfolding from within you in the moment. Where else could it be? Where else could it be? But potentially limitless alternatives, potentially unbridled possibility.”
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“I love him. And he's like, he is a great asset when I'm dealing with young, vulnerable, broken people, when people tell me that they want to end their own lives, when people tell me they self-harm, until people tell me they want to kill himself, that they can't cope with life, they don't feel that they're good enough. I'm not phased. I can stay 100% present with that. And that is a great gift, no?”
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“Latterly due to the principles of recovery, due to the fact that I have mentors, I have peers, I have people that look to me for guidance, I have service, I have duty, responsibility, latterly, Stephen. I come to feel incorporated with that little boy. But if you just spoke to me 10 years ago, I doubt I would like to have heard him referred to. I wouldn't have liked that spectre to have risen, a phantom I'd happily put aside. But now that little boy, like hopefully the little boy that you described down there in Plymouth of all places, that famous rock from where they depart across the oceans, that personal mayflower journey, he's with me now.”
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