Is this desire?
The role of wanting
Is this desire?
Spiritual desire is the drive that God put in us from the beginning, for total satisfaction, for home, for heaven, for divine union, and it just got displaced onto the wrong object.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
few people have ever stopped to examine desire, to feel it directly, to discover a wise relationship to it.
Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart
Desire is a beautiful emotion and a visceral motivator. I think you should court it with a healthy respect.
Simon Sarris • quests, failure, desire
"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)
Desire is the closest thing there is to magic. Nothing else changes the world so powerfully, so quickly. Nothing else builds empires or families or great works of art. Nothing else rearranges my perception so fully, making some things salient and others basically invisible. Even in spiritual lineages dedicated to ending desire entirely, the startin... See more
River Kenna • Varieties of Desirous Experience
Your deepest desires contain great wisdom and you get to spend your life unpacking that. Fun!
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects h
... See moreBecause desire is to own the wanting. That’s one way of looking at it. And in order to own something, there needs to be a sovereign self that is free to choose and, of course, feels worthy of wanting and feels worthy of receiving. That’s why desire is so intimately connected with a sense of self-worth.
The On Being Project • Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death
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