S8: Nurturing Desire (The Gift of Thorns)
The Gift of Thorns (A. J. Swoboda)
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Our call is to nurture the higher desires, and a central way this happens is through the cultivation of habits that shape those desires. Our habits
and our souls go hand in hand. There is an intimate relationship between our habits and our desires.
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