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The necessities of Nature hold us in their thrall but there is first, a difference between them and the desires of the ego and second, a difference between the true necessities which are inescapable from physical existence and the false ones which have been imposed on us by age-old habits, traditions, environments, and outer suggestions.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 76