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<font size="4">Will and Desire</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>What is the difference between Desire or Wish
and Will?</span></i></p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>THEY are not the
same thing. When, for example, you see that a thing is to be done and that it
is good to do it, then normally your reason decides and judges; then it is your
will that sets to work and makes you do what is necessary for the work to be
done. Thus, will is the power of execution which should be at the disposal of
what has been decided by you or a higher force. It is a thing co-ordinated and
organised: it acts according to plan and is in full self-control. Wish or
desire, on the other hand, is an impulse. There are people who are full of
desires, but have no will; they are eaten up by their desires, as it is said. You
go nowhere if you have not even the will to fulfil your desires. The little bit
of will most people have is indeed put at the service of their desires. Will is
a force capable of deliberation and organisation and can be used for any
purpose in view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>When you have the will, it means you have the
capacity of the stained effort for a definite end. A desire, on the contrary,
is something violent, passionate and momentary; it is very rarely a durable
thing. It has not the stuff, the substance and organisation of a sustained
effort. When desire gets hold of you, it can make you do anything, but in a fit
of impulse, not in a methodical and consistent manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>Why do children have the habit of always
asking for things – material objects, I mean?</span></i></p>
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text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>Precisely because
they are full of desires. Perhaps when they were conceived, they were imbued
with the vibrations of desire, and as they have no control over themselves,
they give free vent<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>to their feelings. Older people are also full
of desires, but they are too shy to show them. They are ashamed of these
things, they fear they will be ridiculed and so they hide them. Children are
more simple and straightforward; when they want anything; they speak out. They
do not think that it is not proper or wise to betray themselves. They do not
reason in that way. People, of course – ordinary people, I mean – live
constantly full of desires, only they do not express themselves, sometimes they
do not even avow it to themselves. But it is always there, this sense of the
need for things. Directly you see a beautiful object, you are at once seized by
the idea of possessing it. It is childish, it is even ridiculous. Ninety-nine
persons out of a hundred do not get at all the things they desire. And of the
one per cent how many are interested in the thing once they have actually got
it? A child is even more like that. Give him what he wants, a second after he
will not even look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>How to help a child to get out of this habit?</span></i></p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;
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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>There are more
than one method. First of all, it is to be known whether one may not altogether
stop the child from expressing freely what he thinks and feels. People do this
usually and constantly. They scold, they punish and the child takes the habit
of hiding his desires. That does not cure. If you always tell the child,
&quot;No, you won't have it&quot;, you simply instal this idea in him:
&quot;Yes, when I am a child, I am not given anything, I must wait till I grow
up; well, when I am a man I shall have all that I want&quot;. So I say it is
not a cure; it is not an easy task to bring up a child. There is however the
other way of which I spoke, to give him what he wants. But the difficulty is
that the next moment he will ask for another thing and go on doing without end.
For it is a law, the law of desire, that it is never satisfied. So you can
change your method and tell the child, supposing it is intelligent enough:
&quot;You see, you wanted so much to have the thing and now that you have it
you don't care, you ask for something different. You will do the same with
that also.&quot; But if it is a shrewd child he would reply: &quot;Well, the
best way to Cure me of my desires is to give what I ask for.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>Many hold this last idea all their life. When
they are told to overcome their desires, they answer, &quot;The best way of
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<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
14.0pt'>them is to satisfy them.&quot; But what is needed is not merely
to change the object of desire, but change the impulse, the movement itself.
For that purpose, a good deal of knowledge and understanding and experience are
required. That you cannot expect of young children. First of all, they do not
possess the capacity for reasoning and you cannot explain the matter to them,
they will not understand, your reasons. It is why the parents have normally no
other way except to cut them short, saying: &quot;Stop, you bother us&quot;. That
is how they get out of the difficulty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>It is not a solution. The task is hard,
demanding sustained effort and unshakable patience. There are people, a good
many, who, although no longer children, yet continue to be so all their life:
they too do not understand reason. If you tell them, they are not reasonable
and that it is not possible to be continually satisfying their desires, they
simply think: &quot;These people are quite unpleasant, they are not
amiable.&quot; That is all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>What one may try, in respect of a child, is
to turn the direction of his desires, let him desire better things, better
because more true and also more difficult to obtain. For example, when you see
a child full of desires, put into him a desire of higher quality, that is to
say, instead of desiring purely material objects which can give only a
temporary satisfaction, one could awaken in him the desire to know, to learn,
to become great and so on. That would indeed be a very good beginning. As these
things are more difficult to secure, it will serve to develop, to strengthen
his will. Even if the difficulty is of a physical kind, if, for example, you
give the child a doll to prepare, a Chinese puzzle to solve or a game of
Patience, the effort helps in the development of concentration, perseverance,
a certain clarity of ideas etc. You can in this way divert the child's will
from wrong pursuits to right ones. True, it needs constant attendance and
application on your part, but that seems to be the surest way. It is not easy,
but it is the most effective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>To say &quot;no&quot; does not cure, but to
say &quot;yes&quot; does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their
children to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything
he could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and
cured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day
got hold of a match-box and as he was 
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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>not prevented, burnt himself in playing with
it, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may
be even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils –most children
are so – and when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the
world. Some are fond of walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some
have an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some
who love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such
children are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes.
There are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take
the risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied
anything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that
a thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be
better, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual
liberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed
before beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own
experiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once
I remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible
accident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted
in saying that the child might get killed, the answer was, &quot;What if? Each
one must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to
meddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will
suffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one's own
accord – which is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop.&quot;
But naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way
expected or wished for.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>The matter gets difficult and involved, if
you make a theory and try to follow it. In reality, each case is different and
to be able. to deal with each adequately needs a whole lifetime's occupation.</span></p>

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