Did that bring up something in you? Then I hope you will keep reading. Because so often our culture teaches us that desire is bad, that desire will take us over if we let it, that desire will take us to dark places.
This might be true for cravings. For addictive behavior. For things that we compulsively use to numb our pain.
I am speaking of something different, and I want to create with you the possibility that this deeper, quieter form of desire is actually a road map to what you really want.
The first thing I do when I work with people is to show them that most of what they think of as solid and real about the world is actually stories they have innocently created or believed and then treated as the truth.
When people get that their experience of life can never be of the outside world, but can only happen inside their brains, something changes. They see that, “the world” is actually new and different with every moment and every new thought. And then something interesting often happens.
The desire to control that experience begins to dissipate. The experience itself becomes lighter, less serious.
Trying to control your thinking feels so much heavier than simply seeing it as thinking that will ebb and flow as you give it time and space.
The thinking itself, so insistent before, begins to quiet down as your need to control something that isn’t even real begins to lessen.
And over time, what emerges in that new quiet is something that looks a lot like desire.
You could call it a lot of different things. A mission, a calling, a purpose.
You want it just because you want it.
Sometimes it’s just a glimpse of a next step.
Take it. I promise you, more will be revealed. Another step, and another one after that.
This is the gift of desire. And it might be the most precious gift that we can receive.
What is the tiniest glimmer that you can see? The smallest action that you can take?
The gentle encouragement that’s always there?
Are you ready?