We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.
We do things for good reasons that are bad.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.
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