Thoughts for February 6
Sexual desire is the most all-consuming of desires. This desire is never sated, for the more it is satisfied, the more it grows Very often people are made proud by their control over their own desires, and by the force and passion with which they master them.
What a strange delusion! Many people worry, and suffer, because they have been involved in so many bad things in their lives. In truth, though, good things often happen in spite of our wishes, and sometimes even in opposition to our wishes, and often after our excitement and suffering over unworthy things.
Remember how passionately you yearned in the past for many of the things which you hate or despise now. Remember how many things you lost trying to satisfy your former desires. The same thing could happen now, with the desires which excite you at present. Try to tame your present desires, calm them; this is most beneficial, and most achievable.