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On
the relational level our desires are focused on our
relationships with others, the desire for close connection and
intimacy, the desire to give and receive love, as well as the
desire to enjoy a relationship with objects, such as a
comfortable home, a pleasing flower garden or a wooded forest
surrounding a lake.
On
the spiritual connective level our desires are for spiritual
communion with God or whatever God means to us, which includes
having the feeling of oneness and unity with all that exists.
Many,
if not all of our schools of thought from both Eastern and
Western religious and spiritual groups have attempted to reject
a part of the human experience by stating that desires are
undesirable or objectionable, and seek to reject, deny or
annihilate them in their philosophical and ideological
teachings.
The
foundation of this whole belief system is that all desire must
be eliminated including the desire for good as well as the
desire for evil. The ideal behind these schools of thought are
that good is as much of an "illusion" as is evil, and
until we have reached absolute indifference and detachment to
both, we have not attained freedom.
The
thought that one could possibly deny or annihilate desires is
bewildering to me. If
one were to accomplish the elimination of desire, what
motivation would be left for living?
Where would the guiding force for living life come from?
Consider what a person’s life would be like without
having any desires.
To
the person that had successfully created a state of having no
desires, all sense of choice would have also been eliminated
because choosing implies the perception of one desirable over
another undesirable. So
even the perception that makes one thing preferable over another
would have to be eliminated as well, leaving this person without
any sort of motivation to take any kind of action whatsoever.
This person could have no likes or dislikes because
nothing could have the power to rise up feelings of desire
within him.
This
person, having reached his ideal of eliminating desire would
essentially cease to exist to be anything other than a mere
outer shell because nothing could interest him.
There could be nothing to attract or repulse him. He
would be deadened to all feeling, all motivation for any type of
action toward living life.
The
bewildering factor in this line of thought is that it totally
goes against all creative principles.
Since creation exists it seems clear that we only need to
look around to see that creativity exists because of the
motivating desires within each of us.
Our
desires are at the forefront of unleashing the creative power
within. Each and
every form of creative expression not only implies, but also
requires us to have selective desire, which is in essence the
universal law of attraction in action.
In the conscious mind the attraction towards its affinity
rises up within to become the desire to take action for
creativity.
Most
often we desire to create things that are viewed as a condition
of betterment than what we’d known or had previously.
Sometimes our lack of knowledge causes us to make
mistakes in decisions as to what better is and we may take a
wrong direction. However,
the fault for wrong direction is not in the desire itself, but
in our mistaken notion of what is required for results that
satisfy.
Therefore,
desire is the originators of creativity or the first cause all
creations. Desire
is the origin of all our feelings and all our actions.
Desire is the whole of life brought forth and lived in
the receiving of or in the radiating forth the vibrations
produced by the law of attraction in which consciousness reaches
out toward the direction that it feels attraction to and thus it
becomes desire.
The
force of the universe is desire and it is the innermost center
of all life from which all movement originates.
Desire is the creative power within each of us and
desire’s correlation is fulfillment.
Both are bound together in the sequential law of cause
and effect. Once we
come to a realization of this, we can understand desire as being
the center of life itself.
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