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   djinn wrote:   
      
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   >"Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
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   >On 8/25/2016 6:51 AM, djinn wrote:   
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   >> never once in the genie genre has   
   >> anyone ever thought to wish for an unlimited supply of wishes.   
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   >But our lives are woven around an   
   >unlimited supply of wishes. The former   
   >are consubstantial and coextensive   
   >with the latter. The latter buttress the   
   >former, which would otherwise   
   >collapse into sheer nihility.   
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   >Tang Huyen   
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   >yogananda once said that we send out angels   
   >to do our bidding and then send assassins to   
   >kill them.   
      
   When Yukteswar appeared to him in the room,   
   Yogananda was happy and surprised and   
   gave him a big hug.   
      
   Which was strange, phenomena-wise, since Yukteswar   
   had been dead and buried for some time.   
      
   Anecdotal evidence is dismissed by science.   
   It is beyond the so-called, understanding, of science.   
      
   >when heart, mind and soul are all congruent in   
   >desire, things can appear. desire always gets a   
   >bad name,   
      
   Maybe it does, for some people.   
   I like lots of my desires. At times. Usually.   
   But not always.   
      
   >yet it is this incongruence between   
   >parts of ourselves not in harmony that stops our   
   >desires from manifesting   
      
   Sometimes a wish goes unfulfilled, apparently,   
   and yet, perhaps it gets fulfilled by those whose cup   
   is not entirely full to begin with.   
      
   I'd quote something of noname,   
   but wouldn't want to upset his apple-cart at this time,   
   speaking of oranges, and all in all.   
      
   >and one of the pitfalls   
   >of this process is the things that are desired, sex,   
   >money, power, approval, control and so on. if all   
   >of your desires would boil down to freedom, you   
   >would be instantly enlightened.   
      
   Seeking freedom when one is already not behind bars   
   can be to bar one from entering the realm.   
      
   Once upon a time, three freedom seekers walked into a bar.   
   One would think at least not-two of them would have seen it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)