“And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choise.”
Rumi
The word desire comes from the latin word desiderare which means to long for, feel the want of, to miss or regret.
Desire is a strong emotion, several changes take place in your body when you are in a desiring state. You can see it in a person’s attitude and behaviour, in their facial expressions, the way they look at a particular object or person and you can also hear it in the way they talk !
There are desires of the flesh and desires of the heart. There are desires able to close the gap, others just destroy and tear apart.
Desire can be associated with feelings of unease aswell as ease and pleasantness ! It all depends on how you (re)act to it : how does the desire make you feel and where exactly do you put your focus on ?
Imagine you are in love with a girl, but you are too shy to make a move… as you are walking the street today, you see her hand in hand with another boy…
What kind of feelings would rise up within ? How would you react ? What would you think ? Would there be resentment, hate, despice towards the boy or towards both ? Would you curse him ? Would you think bad thoughts about him even though you have never met ?
Would you be filled with sadness ? Why not me ? It should have been me ! What am I doing wrong ? I am such a failure in love, I am such a loser in life…
Or would you become obsessed by evil thoughts and turn into a predator ? You anxiously want to be in control, you wanna take what you want no matter what. You prey upon the girl and see her as something to conquer and to possess !
What do you perceive ? What do you believe ? Does it attract the things you desire or does it repell all these things from you ?
Desire can be the catalyst for growth, it can provide you the necessary fuel for change but a burning desire can consume you if you don’t fuel that fire with the right intentions !
So tell me, what is it that you truly desire ?
Phuro! Be inspired!
Phuro! 