David Given Schwarm

Self-discipline brings back to us the excitement of our childhood, when our pleasures were rationed–when we got our dessert at the end of the meal and never at the start.

Pleasure is best enjoyed when it comes to us as a “treat,” in contrast to less pleasurable experiences. We made a great mistake trying to have all our night party nights. No one would enjoy Thanksgiving if every meal were a turkey dinner. New Year’s Event would not delight us if the whistles blew at…

You want a perfect life, perfect truth, and perfect love. Nothing short of the Infinite satisfies you, and to ask you to be satisfied with less would destroy your nature. Why do you want Life, Truth, and love unless you were made for them? How could you enjoy the fractions unless there was a whole?