WHAT IS THE MEANING OF DESIRE

 

                     

                                    THE POWER OF YOUR DESIRE

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                ❤       TO LIVE LONG. WHAT? TO ENJOY THE OPERATIONS OF A SENSITIVE SOUL, OR OF THE APPETITIVE FACULTY? OR WOULDST THOU GROW, AND THEN DECREASE AGAIN? WOULDST THOU LONG BE ABLE TO TALK, TO THINK AND REASON WITH THYSELF? WHICH OF ALL THESE SEEMS UNTO THEE A WORTHY OBJECT OF THY  DESIRE? NOW IF OF ALL THESE THOU DOEST FIND THAT THEY BE BUT LITTLE WORTH IN THEMSELVES, PROCEED ON UNTO THE LAST, WHICH IS, IN ALL THINGS TO FOLLOW GOD AND REASON. BUT FOR A MAN TO GRIEVE THAT BY DEATH HE SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF ANY OF THESE THINGS, IS BOTH AGAINST GOD AND REASON.

                 ❤           WHAT A SMALL PORTION OF VAST AND INFINITE ETERNITY IT IS, THAT IS ALLOWED UNTO EVERY ONE OF US, AND HOW SOON IT VANISHETH INTO THE GENERAL AGE OF THE WORLD, OF THE COMMON SUBSTANCE, AND OF THE COMMON SOUL ALSO WHAT A SMALL PORTION IS ALLOTTED UNTO US, AND IN WHAT A LITTLE CLOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH (AS IT WERE ) IT IS THAT THOU DOEST CRAWL. AFTER THOU SHALT RIGHTLY HAVE CONSIDERED THESE THINGS WITH THYSELF, FANCY NOT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD ANY MORE TO BE OF ANY WEIGHT AND MOMENT BUT THIS, TO DO THAT ONLY WHICH THINE OWN NATURE DOTH REQUIRE, AND TO CONFORM THYSELF TO THAT WHICH THE COMMON NATURE DOTH AFFORD.

                      ❤        WHAT IS THE PRESENT ESTATE OF MY UNDERSTANDING? FOR HEREIN LIETH ALL INDEED. AS FOR ALL OTHER THINGS, THEY ARE WITHOUT THE COMPASS OF MINE OWN WILL, AND IF WITHOUT THE COMPASS OF MY WILL, THEN ARE THEY AS DEAD THINGS UNTO ME, AND AS IT WERE SMOKE.

                     ❤          TO STIR UP A MAN TO THE CONTEMPT OF DEATH THIS AMONG OTHER THINGS, IS OF GOOD POWER AND EFFICACY, THAT EVEN THEY WHO ESTEEMED PLEASURE TO BE HAPPINESS, AND PAIN MISERY, DID NEVERTHELESS MANY OF THEM CONTEMN DEATH AS MUCH AS ANY. AND CAN DEATH TERRIBLE TO HIM, TO WHOM THAT ONLY SEEMS GOOD, WHICH IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF NATURE IS SEASONABLE? TO HIM, TO WHOM, WHETHER HIS ACTIONS BE MANY OR FEW, SO THEY BE ALL GOOD, IS ALL ONE, AND WHO WHETHER  HE BOHOLD THE THINGS OF THE WORLD BEING ALWAYS THE SAME EITHER FOR MANY YEARS, OR FOR FEW YEARS OLY IS ALLTOGETHER INDIFFERENT?