Addiction and Depression: Saving Your Loved Ones or Letting Go? A Spiritual Perspective

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekAVAnna VolchekLove, help, and rescuing othersSpiritLoved ones' addictionsRescuing others

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00When we "rescue" from love, and when from fear and control
• 03:00Fate and the soul's path: influencing a person's life and choices
• 07:13Why the word "rescue" is often false
• 08:52Why people develop addictions: deeper causes
• 10:13Is every misfortune fate? "Then should I do nothing?"
• 11:50How to truly help: a spiritual approach
• 15:33Why difficult events happen
• 19:23What true help is: acting from love

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• 01:07

  Because otherwise, of course, you always need to begin by understanding why you have that impulse.

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• 01:11

  That is why I want to broaden it. I don't mean, "I want to be a successful parent, so I want a successful child, and that is why I want to cure them."

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• 02:26

  People often want to save another person or their health, Anya, because they are afraid the person will die, and worry about how they themselves will feel, what it will be like for them, what will happen to them.

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• 08:21

  Now you say, "Can I save this person from his fate?" Because, look, you have your own inner understanding of what should be good and what should be bad.

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• 08:34

  To understand all this, Anya—and this is why you keep wanting to stop me—we need to move on to the following.

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• 14:05

  But when we talk about rescuing, that is a basic structure of human selfishness.

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• 15:18

  Or you can be in a state of acceptance and broaden your perception. That is what life is lived for: if a difficult event happens, Anya, it happens so you can live through it and perceive it as truthfully and fully as possible.

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• 19:13

  Because I didn't tell you not to help the person.

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• 20:57

  I have no other perception, so I have no conflict, no argument, because I live it.

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• 21:18

  When you understand that you actually cannot help someone, that too is a kind of help, Anya.

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