To want to free oneself from desire is still a desire: one does not so easily leave what one claims to quit.

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Detachment aims to extinguish desire in order to reach peace. But this peace, one wants it: to aspire to serenity, to work at freeing oneself, is still to desire something, and strongly.
Desire, then, cannot be removed from outside: one displaces it, from the world toward deliverance itself. To want to want nothing more is still a willing, one that would take itself as its target.
And if one truly managed to let go of all, what would remain? Whoever holds to nothing no longer holds to justice, to their own, to the fate of the world: in making oneself invulnerable, one risks making oneself indifferent.

Therefore So detachment cannot be total without contradicting itself or growing cold: it too must keep certain desires, those worth holding to.

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To detach without closing off

does not preach indifference: to the extinction of selfish thirst answers compassion for all that suffers; detachment there aims at craving, not at the care for others.
But the objection remains: why keep that care, which is still an attachment, and set aside the rest? One needs, then, within detachment itself, a sorting between the desires one holds just and those one rejects.

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