The Importance of Desire

In order to work against the gravity of impurity, this kind of collapsing in on oneself which impurity begets, we seek to cultivate a more perfect love for something more beautiful. T.S. Eliot in his four quartet says, we only live, only aspire consumed by either fire or fire. The question is on which altar or as he says, on which pyre. So it's very difficult to root up sin or to root out sin from one's life. I think it's easier in fact to discover something better because when you discover something better than that takes hold of you, it kind of puts roots down in your heart. And then it makes demands on the soil