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23. One Good Question. One Better Question. | John Ortberg

Become New with John Ortberg

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The Role of Desire in Our Life

Dallas: Desire which we want to be free to follow ends up making us anything but free. Obsession closes the horizon of the mind so that there is just one thing there before the mind, he says. So when I'm gripped by desire, I see a donut and my only thought is, "I don't think blood sugar, diabetes, feed falling off," Dallas writes. 'All I see is an object that can give me pleasure instead of standing back and seeing'

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