Desire, aphorism 334, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry

334

A desire resisted is not a sacrifice.  That one desires serves as proof that one does not have the object in question.  How can one sacrifice something one does not have?  One sacrifices the hope and not the object of hope.  And if one does not need “it” but needs time devoted to what happiness needs, why isn’t the resistance also a gift?  If lacking nothing is fullness, then why isn’t the state of mind which no longer hopes the greatest gift of all?


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