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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
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The Difference between Will, Wish and Desire
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Discrimination
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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
The Difference between Will, Wish and Desire
Discrimination
Now arises the question which desire and wish one must give up and which one must rear. One must have discrimination. If there is no discrimination one will take a wrong way; it may lead to success, but it will be a success in a wrong way. If one rears every desire and wish, and thinks, "This must be accomplished," then sometimes it may be right and sometimes wrong. Discrimination must first be developed in order to understand what leads one to happiness, a lasting happiness, a greater peace, a higher attainment.
But once a person has discrimination and has chosen a wish, then he should not analyze it too much. Many have formed a habit of analyzing everything every day. If a person holds a wish for ten years and every day analyses it in his mind he acts against it. Every day he looks at it from a new point-of-view, he tries to find the wrong points of his own wish and so he tries to crush it in every way possible. In ten years' time his wish would have come true, and instead it is broken to pieces. There are many intellectual people, many people who doubt, many analytical persons who are the greatest enemies of their wish.
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