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Let us go on to consider desire. We know, do we not, the desire which contradicts itself, which is tortured, pulling in different directions; the pain, the turmoil, the anxiety of desire, and the disciplining, the controlling. And, in the everlasting battle with it, we twist it out of all shape and recognition; but it is there, constantly watching, waiting, pushing. Do what you will, sublimate it, escape from it, deny it or accept it, give it full rein - it is always there.
And, we know how the religious teachers and others have said that we should be desireless, cultivate detachment, be free from desire-which is really absurd, because desire has to be understood, not destroyed.
If you destroy desire, you may destroy life itself. If you pervert desire, shape it, control it, dominate it, suppress it, you may be destroying something extraordinarily beautiful.
And, we know how the religious teachers and others have said that we should be desireless, cultivate detachment, be free from desire-which is really absurd, because desire has to be understood, not destroyed.
If you destroy desire, you may destroy life itself. If you pervert desire, shape it, control it, dominate it, suppress it, you may be destroying something extraordinarily beautiful.