“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, Who as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and Whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.”
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Source: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography), Introduction (1927).
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There's a particular ache in knowing the person you want to be and finding yourself pulled the other way by habits and appetites you can't quite master. Naming that gap honestly, instead of pretending it's already closed, is where any real change has to begin.
When to use it
- Someone trying to quit drinking feels the distance between the sober life they picture and the craving that returns each evening.
- A person working to be patient catches themselves snapping at family and sits with the discomfort rather than excusing it.
- A writer who wants deep focus keeps sliding back to their phone and admits the pull instead of blaming the tools.