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It's in each of us...as we have a cocktail, get ready for our date, make Thanksgiving dinner...
The eternal quest for happiness at the center of Reality is deep within us inborn.
The need for love, peace, satisfaction, approval...but most of all to get back Home...
to who we are and to our Creator's bosom or heart, nestled in love.
The desire for that which is better and best is tied in to human psychology; not that everyone fits neatly into the spectrum of common human psychology. But indeed, most seek "cleanliness" or "greatness" in which ever form they imagine it. Quite a pitiful and common human characteristic though, although not necessarily worthless, it is definitely powerful and dangerous. Such a natural drive manifests in many varied worldly and natural ways, including beliefs, rituals, and religions. Our Psychologists have begun to characterize the sense of disgust with a sense of divinity... which I suppose would be described as a sense of being better than that which disgusts you. A sense that the apparent is lower than one's standards. It has been conjectured that perhaps the sense is tied to the immune system of the human body as well as the nervous one, although the full extent of the relationship is almost fully unknown, especially to me.
I don't know if we can classify this "divine desire" along with such natural ones as:
a search for comfort
the need to find someone special to idolize and be grouped with
a desire for bliss and other chemically induced states
a need to express one's character fully so as not to suppress it and become depressed
or a desire for order instead of serving common human goodness.
For these reasons I disagree with the previous posters.
These are all very human things.
Last edited by LuminousTruth; 08-08-2013 at 11:48 PM..
I agree...but first before serving...for me anyway....Divine Desire is the
desire for the Divine...serving or being an instrument of this Higher Power
called the Divine comes next....for me....a natural next step.
And if a person feels the burn for more...namely God, spiritual knowledge and insight...
Then that desire can be fulfilled by the classic 'being still'...practicing
the Presence.
I think it is that thirst for 'more than this world has to offer' .
The Divine Desire happened to me when I finally 'got' absolutely nothing here could ever possibly
last...
So my little heart and soul begin a'searching...
I believe that all desire is ultimately for the Divine...whether we want a coke or sex...we
want satisfaction...but we are looking in all the wrong places.
It was fun for me to realize that is the rocky road that led to the Divine...unfulfilled desires!
But the desires were placed there to come to that very conclusion.
Tricky fella, the Creator.
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