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Originally Posted by troymc
Perfectly put!!
you gotta want it or you'll never do it.
Troy
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But what the Judaeo-Christian tradition - and in its wake Sade, the Romantics, and Freud - tell us is that what we desire is often (by some accounts *always*) dangerous, scandalous. While Eastern traditions (and there's some evidence that the Greeks were familiar with those traditions) teach that desire is vanity, and that to reduce it is prophylactic, the Edenic tradition equates the object of desire with the impure. To surrender to desire is not simply to risk one's equanimity, but to risk one's soul.