Our channels of habitual thinking are deeply cut, and the links of association are tight and almost inevitable.  When the gecko calls, do you think about the gecko?  Do you think about the geckos at your house?  Here comes another call! Sparks to light your Dharma candle go off one after another. The storeroom, the gate!

Thus things of the world are not drugs in themselves.  They become drugs by our use of them.

-Robert Aitken