Temptations Electrify: Songs of Sirens

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Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
(Proverbs 4, 23)


The songs of "sirens" - goddesses of temptation - were what Odysseus feared more than open attacks. When cruising past their island he had his sailors ears sealed and himself bound to the shipmast.
There are times, when very beautiful thoughts and visions electrify our own brains, nerves, hormones, muscles, body and soul. And with our basic values in question, nothing is holding us back.