Dependence on a substance or behavior; compulsive repetition despite harm

The attempt to cover the experience of emptiness through repetition—not pleasure, but clinging to a pattern that tries to replace connection.

Addiction comes from roots meaning “to be bound to.”
But structurally, it is not true attachment,
it is the orbit around something
that blocks access to source.

Addiction is not desire—
it is fear of what desire might reveal.

Addiction is not connection—
it is the repeated attempt
not to feel the emptiness.