Is this desire?
The role of wanting
Is this desire?
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
Understanding, freedom, and joy are the treasures that naming the demon of desire brings us. We discover that underneath unskillful desire is a deep spiritual longing for beauty, for abundance and completeness. Naming desire can lead us to discover this truest desire.
Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart
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
SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez)x.comSpiritual 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
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.
melissa’s mammalian vibe reflexx.comGiving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.
Nisargadatta_Mx.comDesire is a beautiful emotion and a visceral motivator. I think you should court it with a healthy respect.
Simon Sarris • quests, failure, desire
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... See more
Jakex.comYour deepest desires contain great wisdom and you get to spend your life unpacking that. Fun!
Sara Campbellx.com