Book Title: Study in Karma Author(s): Annie Besant Publisher: Theosophist Office AdyarPage 70
________________ WILL AND DESIRE 59 present destiny, marking out your line of activity in this life, yet you can, by thought and by action based thereon change your inborn character, eliminate its weaknesses, eradicate its faults, strengthen its good qualities, enlarge its capacities. You are born with a given character, but you can change it. Knowledge is offered to you as to the means of changing, and each must put that knowledge into practice for him self. WILL AND DESIRE Desire and Activity remain to be considered. Will is the energy prompting to action, and while it is attracted and repelled by outside objects, we call it desire, the lower aspect of Will, as thought is the lower aspect of Cognition. If a man, confronted by a pleasure-giving object, grasps it without thought, he is moved by desire ;Page Navigation
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