102 - Working from Preferences

Do not suppress desire, because desire is energy and the more energy we have, the better.  Don’t seek to fulfill desire so much as to understand desire. See them for what they are worth. Because if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it. Whereas if you look at it and see and understand how you may be preparing the ground for misery and disappointment and depression, your desire will then be transformed into simply a preference.