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The desire/ aversion operating system works in the following way: When you want something, when you have a desire for something:a desire for food a desire for sex; a desire for achievement; a desire for a new car; a new life -- or when you have an aversion: you want to get away from something; you're afraid of something that makes you uncomfortable; you just simply don't like it -- you are immediately in a problematic situation because your happiness, your state of mind, in other words, the way you feel, is based upon something extremely physical. And your happiness is now a victim to fortune, and fortune is capricious, that's for sure. So, if you want a new car, and if you get it you'll be happy until the car isn't so new. And if you can't get it you'll be unhappy, or if you get it and somebody smashes into it, you're unhappy. Or if it isn't what you thought it might be, you're unhappy. And sometimes there are things that make you unhappy, what you call aversions -- things that you don't like about yourself that you just simply at this time can't get away from, try though you will. And if your happiness is dependent upon always getting everything that you desire and always avoiding everything that you want to avoid, chances are you won't be happy, or certainly not very often. This is the human system: desire and aversion. - "Personal Happiness", The Enlightenment Series
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