Engaging desire

There’s nothing wrong with desire. It is however a form of seeking. In acceptance of the eternal now there’s only what is happening. *** When in flow nothing need be pursued.

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Honest and clear desire pursued is not just about self gratification but more importantly the fulfillment of physiological need. We are a well oiled machine when in alignment. That physiological need embraced and allowed will attune us to the nature of reality.

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Clear desire pursued is not simply self gratification but also more importantly the fulfillment of physiological need and survival. When want and need are one we are simply in integrity with life.

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Choice is more of a desire than a reality.

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Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. ~Nisargadatta Mahraj

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When you live an intentional life and make your own decisions, you come to see the paradox of your personal sovereignty. To follow blindly your own desires will create a prison of constant cravings and longing, from which you cannot escape. To refuse your desires creates another kind of prison, one in which you feel ashamed, guilty, resentful, or even psychologically dead. To engage in your desires, with the recognition that they will teach you about your limitations, your vulnerability, and your conflicts, as well as your strengths, will lead to the discovery of your own nature, of who you are. Learning to be guided but not driven by our desires requires that we learn to hold the tension between blinding following impulses and denying the well-spring of wisdom in soul desires. If we can “engage” desire, we will learn who and what we are. – Polly Young-Eisendrath

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