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Guy Finley's Inspirational Quote #5046
  • Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
  • Meeting: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
  • 73 words

Since no desire can complete itself -- by itself -- through anything it imagines -- its only recourse is to imagine "more of" whatever failed to satisfy it the first time around. This unseen cycle is the mainspring of addiction; and, among other unseen self-compromising states, unconscious desire also drives that dark engine called "greed" -- as it keeps trying to fill a bucket with no bottom by pouring imaginary water into it.

Since no desire can complete itself -- by itself -- through anything it imagines -- its only recourse is to imagine "more of" whatever failed to satisfy it the first time around. This unseen cycle is the mainspring of addiction; and, among other unseen self-compromising states, unconscious desire also drives that dark engine called "greed" -- as it keeps trying to fill a bucket with no bottom by pouring imaginary water into it.

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