So long as one of my fellow addicts is not happy,joyous and free, then I am also not free

Cover of Plato

 ‘So long as one of my fellow addicts is not happy,joyous and free, then I am  also not free’,   and which in the past, used to be understood only at a personal level, now has to be  ‘understood’ and ‘lived’ at a higher level of spiritual responsibility. Today, expanding the sphere of our responsibility to  include more and more dimensions of our recovery, that  we will be able to grow into our deeper humanity and thus come  to realise that  who we actually are is  not an individual but a multividual - a universal being! So when Plato told us that each of us contained the qualities of everyman and everywoman and that both what is best and  worst about man - his  capacity for sainthood, sage-hood and genius, as well as his destructiveness and  murderousness-  lies inside  each of us  - from this  ‘new’ place, his words can  begin to make sense!

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