“(…) Desire what is worth desiring and desire it well. Just like you pick your way in a crowd, passing between people, so you find your way between events, without missing your general direction. It is easy, if you are earnest.”

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj

Desire and fear
Source: I am That, P.131.

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