We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
One thing you cannot control is nature.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
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