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Many years ago now Anne Wilson Schaef wrote a book called When Society Becomes an Addict. Here's a great quote from it:

I imagine the universe as an enormous puzzle. Each of us is a unique and vital piece of that puzzle. No one else has our genes, our life experience; no one is us. We are unique! When we are fully ourselves we are that piece. In an Addictive System, we are trained not to be ourselves. We lose touch with ourselves. We reference ourselves externally. We deny who we are. This leaves a hole in the puzzle and a hole in the universe that no one else can fill.

Because we have been living in a system that is an addictive system, we are living in a universe that has many holes. As we begin to claim our lives, our pasts and our selves, that hole in the universe is filled. It is in living our own process that we take our place in the universe and the whole system can then heal.

Source: When Society Becomes an Addict