I WANT IT NOW!

When we want This or That, demanding it
With passion, then our suffering begins,
For sanity requires the opposite:
Not strenuous yangs, but complemental yins.

Emotion-backed demands wreak our distress,
A voluntary suffering we control,
Which only when relinquished find redress,
A temperance that solaces the soul.

Easy though this wisdom is to say,
It’s challenging to temper such demands:
Our potent motives burn to have their way,
Obeying not cool brains but heated glands.

The happy way’s through stillness of the mind,
Which only higher consciousness can find.

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