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David the Bruce.
- May 4, 2020 at 10:04 am EDT #31234
Tony Kosinec- KabU InstructorModeratorHow can we ever be satisfied if the pleasure always neutralizes our desire?
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- July 16, 2023 at 8:12 am EDT #326352
Haze
ParticipantBy 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 …
- August 16, 2023 at 7:50 pm EDT #328937
Jarrett Twaddle
ParticipantThat is a most astute correlation.
- June 30, 2023 at 5:50 pm EDT #324903
Dory
Participantwhen 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?
- June 25, 2023 at 12:19 pm EDT #324437
Annmarie
ParticipantWe 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.
- June 16, 2023 at 2:28 pm EDT #322295
Clara
ParticipantI can’t decide what is my answer
- May 11, 2023 at 6:35 pm EDT #319929
Steve Miley
ParticipantSomehow 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
- April 27, 2023 at 7:23 pm EDT #318990
D
ParticipantI 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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