Judges 14:3 · World English Bible
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
When one desire fills the whole frame, the alternatives stop counting as options and the choice is already finished. Desire narrows the field before reason gets its turn.
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When one desire fills the whole frame, the alternatives stop counting as options and the choice is already finished.
Desire narrows the field before reason gets its turn. A young man whose eyes are full of one person is not weighing anybody, because every other option has been deleted from the list he is choosing from, and a list of one feels like certainty while operating as tunnel vision. Parents reciting alternatives cannot restore what attention has already removed; only a redirected look does that.
Pleasure was the whole criterion, and pleasure this close always outweighs a consequence years out, since only one of the two is in view. A man who never puts the later price in front of his eyes spends his strength on a life his eyes picked for him before he ever deliberated.
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What have you stopped considering because one option is filling the whole screen?
Craving grows like a vine over an untended mind, and the one it covers cannot see past its own leaves. Seeing the craving as craving is the first opening.
When something looks irresistible, hold it at a distance and give yourself time, and the impression loses its grip. Desire that is never examined does the choosing for you.
The senses drag the mind off like wind drags a boat. The steady person is not the one without desire but the one who keeps the long view in sight while desiring.
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