How can we ever be satisfied if the pleasure always neutralizes our desire?

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    • #326352
      Haze
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      By only receiving a portion of that pleasure, and giving the rest back. Now that I think about it, this sounds just like an electrical circuit …

    • #324903
      Dory
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      when we realize things we buy or eat or see will not make us happy. only buy what you need, eat only to nourish the body and realize that what u see is from the creator?

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      Annmarie
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      We shouldn’t be satisfied because we need the desires for satisfaction to give us motivation to build our desires to correct our egoism. I love the EGO Formula: Expected pleasure minus expected effort = pleasure>effort=movement; as effort>pleasure=no movement.

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      Clara
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      I can’t decide what is my answer

    • #319929
      Steve Miley
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      Somehow we have to poke a hole in the bottom of the Klee to spill out the bestowal, so that we can continually be filled with pleasure

    • #318990
      D
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      I read in one of the text that “Everything comes from the Creator. In principle, only one thing comes out of the Creator; simple Light, total goodness. In our corrupted senses we feel it according to our equivalence with it, ranging from the total opposite, to what really is.”

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