Is this desire?
The role of wanting
Is this desire?
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on their trip, but you can do what you want. I did. I went into the woods & read for five years. ~Joseph Campbell
a major enhancement to life is the ability to feel attraction and simply enjoy it without feeling compelled to grasp or pursue the object of one’s attraction. i think a lot of people would relax a great deal if they honed their ability to feel desire, even savor it, without needing to act it out.
Strength reflects a strong, conscious container that embraces all parts of self. We are each intimately linked to our desires and feelings, which are not something to ignore or battle. Working with rather than against our self grants us the energy to clear out old wounds to reveal hidden limitations.
HeatherAsh Amara • Warrior Goddess Training
"As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others.
We tend to think such behavior makes us good people.
It doesn't. It makes us frustrated people."
(Julia Cameron)
In a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?"
In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu
There’s a tendency in psychology to treat shadow as unsavory desires
With a little more attention it almost always reveals itself to want something beautiful but have poor frame for achieving it
Validation? You mean a desire to be seen in your gifts? Domination? You mean a desire to put your will into the world or feel safe? Cowardice? You mean a... See more
Your deepest desires contain great wisdom and you get to spend your life unpacking that. Fun!
I love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: “It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.”
John Lambert • Yoga
But you won’t exhaust desires by searching; you will exhaust them by experiencing that which underlies them.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
So don’t seek to become free of desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind.