^Duty ^Forgo ^Tempt ^Tease ~medicine~ ~sacrifice~ ~temptation~ ~naughty~

Figure

A plate of chocolate chip cookies; one is bigger than the rest.

Annotate

  1. ^Inspire to ^Act or ^Choose against our ~mind~ or its ~foundation~ in ~one-another~. 
    1. ^Trust to ^Hold it ~alone~ or ^Share it selfishly. 
    2. ^Notice ^More of ^What we ^Feel is ~naughty~ or ~evil~. 
    3. ^Stop for ^Less of ^What we ^Think is ~good~. 
  2. ^Attach it to our ~progress~. 
    1. ^Try to ^Wait for ~more~ or without ~love~. 
    2. ^Seek a ~reward~ for its ^Own sake. 
    3. ^Move to ^Win-or-lose without ~respect~. 
  3. ^Change or ^Contend for ^More distortion so that we ^Depart from ~truth~, ~good~, ~family~ or ~love~. 

Subject

^Tempt is a mode of ^Agency that is a necessary ~evil~ in our ~journey~.  Often, ~temptation~ may ^Cause or ^Affect our current distortions and our ~ability~ to ^Navigate them.  Distortions and ~weakness~ ^Give ~strength~ to ~temptation~ and vice versa.  This may ^Come quite naturally sometimes, so it may ^Take ~patience~ and ~practice~ to ^Overcome. 

This ^Concept may ^Prove difficult to ^Manage and a ~restorer~ of it often must ^Join, ^Merge or ^Hide ~parts~ of our ~agency~.  Thereby we ^Win-or-lose our ~desire~ for it despite ourselves.  Yet in ~matter~ of ~fact~, we could ^Think of it ~as~ something we ^Choose. 

^When we have ^Three or ^More options then a ~temptation~ may ^Win-or-lose ^More easily with an ^Individually ^STRONG ~signal~.  We may ^Refuse ~temptation~ or ^Swap it for ~daily-self-care~ ~as~ a ^First resort.  And then once we ^Refuse we can ^Mind to ^Choose ^Among the ~good~ only so that we may ^Block and (re-)^Direct the energy of it elsewhere. 

^When our ~memories~, ~presence~, ~view~ or ~gaze~ ^Persist the ~temptation~ and then we ^Divide or ^Ignore it so ~as~ to ^Forget it yet do not ^Leave it, we might ^Maximize its ~power~ instead of ^Forget it.  So in ~mirror~ of it, we ^Train our ~memories~, ~presence~, ~view~ or ~gaze~ to ^Attach to the ~consequence~ of ~harm~ rather than its ~reward~ or ~lack~, so we don't ^Deceive ourselves.  ^When we do so we ^Model the ~temptation~ in our ~mind~ ^More accurately for ^Better ~results~. 

We may ^Shift the ~focus~ to ^One of ~worry~ or ~doubt~ by ~virtue~ of the ^Big ~picture~.  Yet it is ^No ~harm~ to ^Ignore the ~hope~, ~belief~ or ~reward~ of it ^Now.  We can ^Search for a ^Better ~hope~ rather than ^Sacrifice ourselves for sake of ~desire~. 

Target

A necessary ~evil~ and unavoidable on our ~PATH~. 

We invite it ^When we ^Forget to ^Take ~care~ of ourselves and others.  It may ^Come ^When we ^Forget about ~weakness~ or ~strength~ in ourselves and others.  It may ^Cause us to ^Abuse or neglect our ~mind~ or a ~foundation~ ^Where we ^Belong. 

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