Tim Mackie

You're just making yourself sick in the language of that prophet.

Why make yourself sick?

Yeah.

That's great.

That's good.

You just made a new proverb.

That's a great proverb.

So don't desire it.

Yeah.

Which, you know, might to some of us sound like, you know, stop being anxious.

Stop having anxiety.

But desire might feel, because it happens to us...

It might feel like something that you can't control, but there is deep wisdom in many, many cultural traditions, religious traditions, including the Christian religious tradition, that you actually can control and shape your desires and change what you desire.

You can.

Yeah.

So much of the early Christian kind of spiritual practices of fasting and daily prayer and service to the poor, commitment to living in close proximity to other people, all of these practices are about the reshaping of desire.

And...

how we structure our actual life environments and habits of time and money are directly affected to what we find ourselves daydreaming about and desiring.

It's a good example of, what is it, neuroplasticity?

Of the moldability of the human brain and psyche that you can, over time, change what you desire.