The Beloved One: "This is going to be a little treatise on addictions. Mind you, it is a little spiel on addictions, but not just on chemicals, food, or sex. No, the habits we are delving into here are those that are not normally thought of as such by mainstream humanity. These are the ingrained habits of your thinking. They are the well-worn, in-grooved patterns in the brain—the very channels through which your mindal activity flows, whilst hardly ever an idea will surface as to why a particular thought appeared in the first place. | The Beloved One: "This is going to be a little treatise on addictions. Mind you, it is a little spiel on addictions, but not just on chemicals, food, or sex. No, the habits we are delving into here are those that are not normally thought of as such by mainstream humanity. These are the ingrained habits of your thinking. They are the well-worn, in-grooved patterns in the brain—the very channels through which your mindal activity flows, whilst hardly ever an idea will surface as to why a particular thought appeared in the first place. |