To enable, allow, and nurture one’s desires with clarity, precision, and purity is to realize love in life with health, wealth, and joy. In proportion to its purity, desire (Love) always connects, enlivens, and nurtures.
Desires are interrelated. They do not occur in isolation. All desires are interdependent with other desires.
Desires have various degrees of depth. Some desires are formed as an implementation of a deeper desire. The knowledge, resolution, and attainment of deeper desires will often decrease the intensity of many other surface desires.
The realization of a feeling occurs in the same location and depth of self as that from which it arose. The satisfaction of a feeling is always a return to the origin of that feeling.
Surface desires are often conflicted; one’s deepest desires are never conflicted.
At the root, the desires of self and those of culture are always in deep alignment and agreement. The deepest desires of the self are always connected with the deepest desires of the community.
Ultimate root desires are never necessarily in conflict. Only the perceptions, expressions, representations, and beliefs about desire can be in conflict. Only forms (how one thinks about and expresses one’s desires) can be in conflict; feelings are always consonant (never in conflict).
The meaning of a surface desire is clarified when its foundation in deeper desires is known. When surface desires appear to be in conflict, the knowledge and realization of one’s deeper desires will always resolve that conflict.
When desires are confused (i.e., are internally conflicting or are unclear), or when one has conflicting ideas and beliefs, one has effectively become two smaller selves, each of which has significantly less freedom of choice. One chooses most effectively when choosing as a unified self, as a whole being, with attunement and at-one-ment with one’s own innermost (deepest) desires.
It is as great a desire of self to grow as it is for a culture to evolve. Growth happens in interaction, connection, and coherency; the continuity of being. As such, both selves and societies always seek to find resolution between conflicting perceptions, ideas, beliefs, and ideologies.
Only that which nurtures life will continue to live.
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