Tuesday, January 12, 2016

sobriety/abstaining as MODEL of not accepting temptation

(10/2/14 but said "draft" so published now)
the significance:  not denying, resisting but saying no (to an outside tempter) to what has no appeal.  while not conscious that the temptation is coming from without, the primary temptation is to KEEP wanting that sense of self: to harbor something foreign because another self is wanted.  accepting any foreign self ,by that very act, can't help but only give you the cake and then leave you wanting the cake when Sisyphus has eaten it.

why would i want to steal something little, when i can create (it, but obviously way more anyway since I know I create).

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