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What You Don’t Understand About Desire
Desire often gets a bad reputation and it’s easy to see why. When we don’t get what we want, we feel horrible and we wish we didn’t have desires in the first place. But perhaps there is a misunderstanding of what desire is that can help us in fulfilling said desire.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. — Robert Collier
Desire is pretty much a seed, in that if you have an actual seed, you potentially have a tree in your hands. In the seed is the yet unmanifested tree. No one would look at a seed and think that it couldn’t be a tree (given the right circumstances). But even if for some reason it didn’t, there are so many more seeds! And therefore, so many potential trees.
It’s the same for us. When we have a desire, the desire is the yet unmanifested goal or achievement. After all, could you really achieve anything without first having desire? Of course not. You couldn’t have a tree without a seed, could you?
For example, if you didn’t have the desire to be a lawyer, can you be a lawyer? No, it’s impossible. How would you end up enrolling in law school? Why would you be paying for lessons? Why would you be sitting…
