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Re:Drug addiction: The complex truth by delluminatus on Friday September 13, 2013 @05:31PM (#6383306)
In my (admittedly limited) experience, people are taking a big risk by making their spouse a critical source of meaning in their life. I think the problem is that it's reliant on reciprocation, whereas the others aren't (except children to some extent).

With respect to your comment on the yogi: note that most yogi follow some number of vows [0] and abstentions [1] that seem to me to be very much an attempt at "controlling it." Eventually I guess they don't need to "control it" anymore, once they reach Samadhi, but in practice the path of the Yogi is typically one of repression.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamas

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyama

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Re:Drug addiction: The complex truth by codyb on Friday September 13, 2013 @05:54PM (#6383438)
I totally agree. I think in real life most people decide following these path's will allow them to reach enlightenment or at least come closer. Despite that I don't think one who has reached enlightenment feels they're controlling anything at all, nor does that bother them in any way.
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