To truly hope is to truly live. To be hopeless is to wander the earth in the shadow of death.
Without desire, there is no hope.
A true desire is something that can be achieved, but once achieved, continues on. This is because truth has no end.
Therefore, a true desire is not for a particular end goal, but for a journey of some sort. Of improving and increasing in something.
The desire then, should have no end. The desire is in the journey.
Yet, in order to maintain interest in the desire, it must consist of tasks that in fact do culminate in goals.
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