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...Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly bann...

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... One may imagine a condition of life in many respects somewhat analogous to the life of Epicurus in his famous Athenian Garden. To the philosopher of pleasure and contentment came pupils and disciples, discourses were held in much the same way as at an identical period discourses were held in the garden at Athens, and it is to these discourses, memorised and recorded by hi...

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...In this era of time cycle, environment in all four directions is engulfed in fire of sexuality. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan reveals the reality of pleasures related to sexuality, through it, not only awareness of true happiness arises but also awareness that there is actually no happiness at all in sexual pleasures that were believed due to societal influence & ignoranc...

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...In this era of time cycle, environment in all four directions is engulfed in fire of sexuality. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan reveals the reality of pleasures related to sexuality, through it, not only awareness of true happiness arises but also awareness that there is actually no happiness at all in sexual pleasures that were believed due to societal influence & ignoranc...

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...In this era of time cycle, environment in all four directions is engulfed in fire of sexuality. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan reveals the reality of pleasures related to sexuality, through it, not only awareness of true happiness arises but also awareness that there is actually no happiness at all in sexual pleasures that were believed due to societal influence & ignoranc...

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...c, magic backdrop of a midwestern winter. A tale about the masks people wear and a meditation on the power of magic, Nameless revels in the simple pleasure of storytelling. Nameless is also available for sale in hardcopy at http://http://extribulum.wordpress.com/nameless/...

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...CONTENTS11. Inner Motion and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Advancing toward Altruistic Pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 12. Eradicating Egoism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Search for the Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...... 78 8. Structure of Spirituality ................................. 81 False Pleasures ........................................... 84 9. A Plea for ... ...otion and Development ......................... 98 Advancing toward Altruistic Pleasure ........................ 104 12. Eradicating Egoism ............. ...he Way of Kabbalah ................................. 139 The Desire To Receive Pleasure ............................ 146 14. Revelation and Concealmen... ...the basis for all our desires and actions. Our reason calculates the amount of pleasure we expect to experience, and matches it against the amount of ... ...om the other to assess the cost, and then decide whether we will strive toward pleasure or choose tranquility. Sucha"reasonable"approachtooursurroundi... ...dy. Thereisaconditionofthesoulcalled"Shechinainthedust," when spiritually pure pleasures are considered to be super- fluous and absurd. This state is ... ...ituallifeandpreventusfrom sinking to the depths of egoism, once again becoming pleasure seekers. Our need to become aware of the Creator must be culti... ...nds human beings deliberately dulls the need for Divine Awareness, and sensing pleasure from anything external instantly reduces the pain of spiritual... ...scends to the same spiritual level it descended from, experiencing far greater pleasures than it had in its initial state when it was part of the Crea...

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...roperties of turmeric and Kum 15. MEETING IS HIGHER THEN SEPARTION 16. Next Morning, At MANGALA ARATI DARSHAN TIME. 17. Next Night 18. Radharani, Pleasure Potency of Lord Krishna 19. The Gopé’s Feeling Separation 20. End note-1 21. End note-2 ...

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...ower, Night, Cathedral, Walpurgis Night, Oberon and Titania, Dreary Day, Night, Dungeon) Part II: Act I Scenes I-VII (Landscape, Castle, Hall, Pleasure-Garden, Gallery, Brightly-Lit Halls, Hall of the Knights) Act II Scenes I-IV (Chamber, Laboratory, Classical Walpurgis Night, Upper Peneus River) Act II Scenes V-VI (Aegean Coves, Telchines of Rhodes) Act III...

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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolution throughout our history....

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... E WO R D T he essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to dis- cover, inve... ...nvent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our his... ...been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In the first stage, it manife... ...structure of reality and how the substance of Cre- ation—the desire to receive pleasure—evolves. It only took one ses- sion to create a common languag... ... by the wondrous sensation of eternal life, and end- less, boundless stream of pleasures. This is where our lives are leading us. 26 T H E N AT U R ... ...hat the whole of reality consists of a sub- stance called “the will to receive pleasure.” This will to receive pleasure is essentially a desire to be... ...s as the basis of reality, is based on the desire to enjoy, an aspiration for pleasure. In each level of reality, this aspiration takes on different... ... this will to receive stems from the Light’s action, it senses the Light (the pleasure) at a very minimal level. At this point the will to receive h... ... that it exists, that there is “a Giver,” meaning something that gives it the pleasure it is experiencing. Thus, once the will to receive senses ple...

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...: All the struggles are for that only. Dadashri: Yes, you do not like that temporary happiness. Unhappiness (pain) follows this temporary happiness (pleasure); that is why one does not like it. If the happiness is permanent then unhappiness does not follow. One needs such happiness. When one attains such happiness; that is called moksha. What is the meaning of liberation?...

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... greatest happiness principle, or the principle of utility. Bentham's principle of utility regards good as that which produces the greatest amount of pleasure, and the minimum amount of pain; and evil as that which produces the most pain without the pleasure. This concept of pleasure and pain is defined by Bentham as physical as well as spiritual. Bentham writes about this...

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........................ 85 Chapter 4. Spiritual Work ...................................................................141 Chapter 5. The Desire for Pleasure: Discovery and Correction ........ 204 Chapter 6. Soul, Body and Reincarnation ......................................... 239 Chapter 7. Beliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter ...

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.................................... Spiritual Work 141 Chapter 5. The Desire for Pleasure: Discovery and Correction ........ 204 Chapter 6. Soul, Body a... ...ntly intensifying pain, but also if we are filled with peace, fulfillment and pleasure. When the pain of this question suddenly surfaces, it knocks ... ...elf to perfection by the correct use of its only attribute – the reception of pleasure. Changing the intent of one’s desire involves several phases: ... ...o otherwise desire only rest. By our nature, we operate by the law of maximum pleasure for minimum effort. But when pain forces us to wake up and re... ... for even the smallest hint of pain. On the contrary, we will feel wholeness, pleasure and serenity. T H E M E A N I N G O F AG O N Y Q: Why does th... ... ask for that revelation because it is for the purpose of correction, not for pleasure. The host offers his guest food and drink. All the guest actu... ...actually wants is the food, but along with his desire (vessel) and the future pleasure (the Light), there is yet another sensation – the presence of... ... a receiver, a taker. That sensation is so unpleasant that it overshadows the pleasure of eating the food. T H E F E E L I N G O F S H A M E Q: Why d... ... H E T H O U G H T O F C R E AT I O N 25 Creation was made with the desire for pleasure and there are only two participants in it: the soul and the C...

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... it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions....

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...interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret ... ...nterest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret ... ...conscious- ness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure. Now you see her, said Miss Betsey. My mother bent her head, and... ...satisfactory and there- fore not at all improbable picture. I expressed my pleasure in the contemplation of it, and little Em ly was emboldened to say... ...hange an inno- cent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure. Like two young mavishes, Mr. Peggotty said. I knew this meant, ... ...ed all the evening and did nothing else. They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I sup- pose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a... ... speckled choker, said the waiter. No, I said bashfully, I haven t the pleasure He came in here, said the waiter, looking at the light through... ...r mother. I will not have this room shunned as if it were infected, at the pleasure of a child. Sit down. He ordered me like a dog, and I obeyed like... ...oung sir, if you please, he said, opening the door, and I shall have the pleasure of taking you home. 152 David Copperfield Vol. I I put my hand...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to...

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...s one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our... ...nt judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the ... ...egal robe have passed this way in turn. How many instigations of needs and pleasures have led to the interior arrangement of the dwelling! T o right, ... ...ave resented any signs of activity in her sister-in-law, now took a savage pleasure in prodding the languid inertness of the feeble creature. Celeste,... ...st friend. Always received by her with affectionate smiles and sympathetic pleasure, he yielded readily to the irresistible grace of her manners. The ... ...laries, which already require an exhorbitant tax!” “I have not yet had the pleasure of hearing you at the Palais,” said Vinet to Monsieur de la Peyrad... ...Cerizet, who is a worthy fellow after all, though he is too fond of women, pleasure, and good living, was very useful to Theodose, who edited the poli... ...Jesuit means knavery, and knavery for knavery’s sake; they deceive for the pleasure of deceiving, and, as the saying is, to keep their hand in. That’s... ...or, by a phenomenon less rare than singular, they have found only wearying pleasures while seeking for the happiness that escaped them—sustained in th...

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... are the ability to love oneself and to love others. The topics most debated in the book are: spirituality, freedom, the psychological dimension, the pleasure principle, the joy principle. The author also observes that today there are many schools of psychoanalysis and different therapeutic techniques that are often in contrast, and he poses the question as to whether it i...

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..................................................... 63 CHAPTER IX: THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE AND THE JOY PRINCIPLE .................................... ...to survive”, when we’re talking about the Psychological I? COMMENT: The Pleasure Principle! ANTONIO: Perfect. The Pleasure Principle is the iro... ... deferred for any reason. If at a certain point this need for the psyche’s pleasure is threatened or interrupted, a conflict explodes between the Psy... ...ict explodes between the Psychological I that does not want to forego this pleasure, and the I Person that wants instead to actualize itself and bec... ...If you prefer, we could say that my devil is the psyche, in as much as the Pleasure Principle regulates it, and it is completely incapable of doing ... ... the psyche, which cannot tolerate any type of frustration to its reaching pleasure, becomes a negative voice. It becomes aggressive towards anything... ...son and thus the same subject. Do you want an example? The most important pleasure for the psyche at this time, which we have all grown accustomed ... ... grown accustomed to, thanks to society and to how we are educated, is the pleasure of gaining power over ourselves and over others. Let’s take as an... .... Let’s take as an example a mother who absolutely refuses to renounce the pleasure of determining her children’s lives. Can this mother have an aff...

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...People are trying to attain pleasure, peace and bliss in the life but why they do not attain true pleasure or bliss? The whole world is in kashaya. Kashaya means anger-pride-deceit-greed, all these are weaknesses. Absence of kashaya is verily bliss, tha...

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...People are trying to attain pleasure, peace and bliss in the life but why they do not attain true pleasure or bliss? The whole world is in kashaya. Kashaya means anger-pride-deceit-greed, all these are weaknesses. Absence of kashaya is verily bliss, tha...

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...t with you-no." Her fiance like to come over to Lazar for a glass of vine. Then they talk about politics, literature, music. There's some perverse pleasure in it, sometimes. ...