[오늘의 한문장] 드링킹, 그 치명적 유혹

So on it goes.
You lie and you deflect blame and you rationalize
and the hole you dig yourself gets deeper and deeper.
Denial first of drinking, then of the self-stretches to include
more and more bits of reality,
and afte a while you literally cannot see the truth. - P234

A True alcoholic is someone w...

A True alcoholic is someone who‘s turned from
a cucumber into a pickles
you can try to stop a cucumber from turning into a pickle,
but there‘s no way you can trun a pickle back
into a cucumber. - P174

Drinking alone is enormously self-protective,
at least in theory.
The solitude relieves you of human contact
and the alcohol relieves you of your own thoughts,
of the dark pressure of your own company.
Drinking alone is what you do
when you can‘t stand the feeling of living
in your own skin. - P96

I drank when I was happy and ...

I drank when I was happy
and I drank when I was anxious
and I drank when I was bored
and I drank when I was depressed. - P12

알코올 중독자가 되는 과정을 묘사하는것은 공기를 묘사하는 것과 비슷할지 모른다. 단정적으로 표현하기에는 너무 크고 오묘하고 곳곳에 편재해 있다. 인생의 모든 굽이에 알코올이 있다. 그래서 언제나 그 존재를 느끼면서도 느끼지 못한다. 우리가 아는 사실은 하나, 알코올이 없으면 죽을 것 같다는느낌이다. 평범한 술꾼이 알코올 중독이라는 구체적인 선을 넘어버리는 것은 어떤 단순한 이유, 어떤 한순간, 어떤 단일한 심리적사건을 통해 설명할 수 없다. 그것은 아주 느리고 점진적이며 집요하고도 불가해한 형성의 과정이다. - P22

[오늘의 한문장] 우파니샤드

진리를 아는 사람을 대적하여 그를 박해하거나 더럽히려고 하는 사람은 마치 흙덩이가 돌에 맞아 부서지듯이 파멸에 이를 것이다.
왜냐하면 진리를 아는 사람은 바위처럼 단단하기 때문이다. - P226

[오늘의 한문장] 우파니샤드

인간의 욕심은 끝이 없어서 욕심을 좇다가 파멸에 이른다. 그래서 인간들은 욕심을 버리고 베푸는 훈련을 할 필요가 있다. - P213