your passions. “Kill out desire” are words, which spring from the belief that the kingdom of heaven can be seized by violence, but the truth is, you never can kill anything, not even “desire.” if you think you can kill you are deceived and you will have to do your work over again. So, we do not think of destroying our passions, neither, on the other hand, of suppressing them. For there are people who have a certain amount of self-control through suppressing themselves. Sometimes they suffer great distress through crowding hack their desires until they are like a mighty dynamo of power. Sometimes there follows a bursting. an explosion--- a lawless act through a mighty desire for freedom and a crashing fall of a nature overborne with ascetic restraint.

Transmutation

No; transmute your desires. Lift it them up to the spirit and have the spirit take hold of them. Transmute them through the renewing of your mind. The anger that you have held back and crowded down, suppressing your words, pressing your lips together, and yet justifying. the cause of your anger, will one day burst out in words most painful, if you do not take it in charge and give it to the spirit. Give no place to righteous indignation--- not given as the wrath of God, for there is no such thing. That is a figment of the imagination, making God in the image of the mortal--- an idol which men have bowed down to. content in their own lack of peace and power through justifying the wrath of God. There is no place for