Temptation….

Temptation.

When temptation comes, be grateful. If you really do covet your neighbor’s wife or husband don’t fight that feeling. Move towards it knowing that until you feel it, fully, as a temptation you could act on, it will have no reality. It will be merely theoretical.

The whole point about temptation is to feel it so you can see that, in fact, it is simply the frightened part of your personality that is seeking to be consoled. You may think you want your neighbor’s spouse, but actually, behind that, you are simply feeling unloved and not very attractive. You’re feeling weak. That’s not unusual for most of us. This is the frightened part of yourself that is, like a small child, clamoring for consolation.

Now you know what you feel you can take real action. If you’re feeling unloved go out and find the unloved people in the world – the poor, the homeless, the dispossessed. You won’t have to look far. Then give them the love you hanker after. I promise you, that will change the way you see yourself.

What we think we want is often the thing we most need to give to others.