^Tempt ^Duty ^Tease ~sacrifice~ ~temptation~ ~naughty~

Figure

A plate of chocolate chip cookies; one is larger than the rest.

Annotate

  1. ^Inspire to ^Act or ^Choose against our ^Mind or its ~foundation~ in ~one-another~. 
    1. ^Trust to have it ~alone~ or ^Share it selfishly. 
    2. ^Look for ^More of ^What we ^Feel is naughty or ~evil~. 
    3. ^Stop for ^Less of ^What we ^Think is ~good~. 
  2. ^Attach it to our ^Progress. 
    1. ^Try to ^Wait for ^More or without ~love~. 
    2. ^Seek a ^Reward for its ~own~ sake. 
    3. ^Move to ^Win-or-lose without ^Respect. 
  3. ^Change or ^Contend for ^More distortion so that we ^Depart from ^Truth, ^Good, ^Family or ^Love. 

Subject

^Tempt is a mode of ^Agency that is a necessary ~evil~ along our ^PATH.  Temptations often cause or affect our current distortions and our ~ability~ to navigate them.  Distortions and ~weakness~ ^Give ~strength~ to ~temptation~ and vice versa.  This comes naturally, so it may ^Take a long time and much ^Practice to ^Overcome in any area. 

This ^Concept proves difficult to ^Manage and a ^Restorer of it often must obscure or conflate attributes of our ^Agency and thereby we ^Win-or-lose our ~desire~ for it despite ourselves.  Yet we could ^Think of it as something we ^Choose. 

^When we have three or ^More options then a ~temptation~ wins ~more~ easily with an ~individually~ ~STRONG~ ~signal~.  We may ^Refuse ~temptation~ or ^Swap it for ~daily-self-care~ as a ~first~ resort.  And then once we ^Refuse we can ^Mind to ^Choose among the ~good~ only so that we may stifle and (re-)^Direct the energy of it elsewhere. 

^When our ~memories~ persist the ~temptation~ in some ~way~ then to ^Divide as a means to ^Forget it may boost the power of the ~temptation~.  So in ~mirror~ we ^Train our ~memories~ to ^Attach to the ~consequence~ rather than its ~reward~ or ~lack~, so we do not ^Deceive ourselves.  ^When we do so we ^Model the ~temptation~ in our ^Mind ^More accurately for ^Better ~results~.  In summary, instead of ^Try to ^Ignore it, we may ^Shift the ^Focus of the ~memories~ onto the bigger ~picture~. 

Target

A necessary ~evil~ and unavoidable on our ~PATH~.  We invite it anytime we ^Forget to ^Care for ourselves and others.  Anytime we ^Forget to ^Care for a ~weakness~ or ^Forget to use a ~strength~ in ourselves.  Anytime we neglect a necessary ^Foundation to which we ^Belong. 

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