"When people follow the wrong way until it becomes habitual, it is extremely difficult to turn around and go in the right way. They can reach a point where it’s almost impossible to come back. It is not absolutely impossible, because there is no fundamental impossibility for anyone.

But they simply have no interest in the things that will turn them around. Because they are only interested in unwholesome matters, they do not want to hear about wholesome ones.

When it’s like that, nobody can make them reverse course. Only traumatic or catastrophic events can have a sobering effect." - Ajaan Paññāvaddho