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Dealing with Our Passions (Part VI)

Another method of dealing with our thoughts and feelings, our passions and needs, consists in thinking them all the way through to the end, in picturing to ourselves all the consequences of admitting the passions into the imagination. In this way we can also discover which way the passions actually want to lead us. Sexual fantasies, for example, stand for something quite different, for the longing to be free, to let oneself fall, to be