If the volume of love in our soul diminishes, if we curb our love through fears, depression, sorrows, inability to abstain, our desires will become our masters, and we will become their slaves. The slave of happy feelings (ie. sentimental happiness) will be the slave of spiritual and material happiness.

Source:
S N Lazarev-Surviving Guide (book number nine).
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