Love always provides both the basis for choice and the energy to choose. Love has three aspects: Desire, want, and need. These aspects refer to the quality, form, and intensity of love respectively.

Want, need, and desire are distinct, inseparable, and non-interchangeable. Each has its place, value, and validity.

The meanings of want, need, and desire are distinguished by where they arise and where they are realized. Considering the self as a conduit of connection between spirit and matter, soul and body:.

* Desires are feelings that arise within the soul to affect the self.

They can only be realized from within the soul (an aspect of spirit).

* Needs arise within the self and can only be realized within the self (an aspect of mind).

* Wants come from the outer world and arise within the body to affect the self.

They can only be realized within or through the body (an aspect of world).

Wants, needs, and desires are abstractions of thoughts, feelings, and emotions respectively. They are also the instructions of purpose, value, and meaning. A life must realize all of these, in proper balance, to be complete.

Here ‘ab-stract’ is best understood to mean “out of form” and ‘in-struct’ as “into form”.

A single desire is always more fundamental than any number of wants and/or needs.

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