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What is Needed for Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Order of Desire

Aquinas says spiritual desires work in the opposite way. What you don't have, you don't desire; as you begin to have it, your desire for it increases. Knowing doesn't diminish your love of what you know: It's like a virtuous amplification of that desire. Until you reach the point when you possess perfectly, at which point you don't cease to love,. although you don't any longer have a lack, you possess and therefore love most fully.

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