Desire’s Design: Destruction, Disruption, Delight

Desire, from a spiritual point of view, may be “undesirable.” For too much desire, intense desire, subjective desire — desire stemming from the ego and its distortions — alienates you from the core of your being. Such desire often contains pride, self-will, fear, lack of trust in the universe. It creates a tense, contracted energy system and preven

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Girard taught that all desire is fundamentally a desire for being. In other words, all desire is metaphysical—it seeks a kind of inner transformation, a transfiguration of identity, which we desperately seek but even more desperately deny.