Where there is care and where there is a desire to learn with attention, wisdom will appear. Only when we are able to absorb the fire of wisdom into our heart will it be possible for us to quickly burn away our distracting desires. The fire always tries to rise higher and higher. Even if you put the fire in a low ditch, it will try and rise higher. Water, on the other hand, will rush down even if you pour it on a higher level. Water cannot go higher up on its own. Our sensory desires relating to the material world are like water. On the other hand, our thoughts of the Lord are like fire. Once we understand and appreciate what is true and what is permanent, then these transient things will not give us any trouble whatsoever. If you want to establish one truth, it is possible to do so only by following and practising other related truths. Just as we have to use a thorn to remove another thorn and a diamond to cut another diamond, so also, if you want to remove the effect of bad actions, you can remove them only by good actions. A good action is needed to remove a bad action. – Divine Discourse, Jun 13, 1974