The Hinterland Beyond Desire

Monday, August 06, 2007

Prayer is good and advisable, but it is not the be- all of religion. Similarly, achievement starts with desire but it does not end with it. If desire is the shore on which your feet are standing, let me make it bold and declare to you that there is a hinterland beyond desire and prayer.

You may desire, pray, wish, visualise and make positive affirmations but that alone will not guarantee you all the success you need. The first station in the hinterland beyond desire is intention.

The Webster dictionary defines intention as the aims that guide action. Encapsulated in this definition are two very important ideas. Firstly, it suggests the existence of aims and secondly it introduces the idea that actions can be and should be guided. We will focus on the second idea for now.

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The Hinterland Beyond Desire

Prayer is good and advisable, but it is not the be- all of religion. Similarly, achievement starts with desire but it does not end with it. If desire is the shore on which your feet are standing, let me make it bold and declare to you that there is a hinterland beyond desire and prayer.

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