Thus it is no longer a question of cutting off the senses, desires, and passions; on the contrary, it is a question of mounting these high-spirited, steedlike messengers in full consciousness so that they may carry us rapidly to a continuous presence to the world. This all-encompassing, larger conception of the profound dignity of the human being is often misunderstood. Certain people imagine that it refers to permissiveness, and in allowing themselves to follow their egoist inclinations they bind themselves increasingly in suffering and absence. This is the battle of impulsiveness against
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Impulsiveness is shadow spontenakty
