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04/02/2004
Entry: "What Do You Want? Lesson 3"
Do you know what you want? We all have wants even if we believe otherwise. If we don’t get food, water or other necessities, we become very aware of having wants because the wants become needs that must be met in order to live. But, as our basic needs are fulfilled, we are then safe and able to look around for something else to achieve, acquire or experience. Creating the fulfillment of desires is what makes life interesting and meaningful. Wanting is, in itself, not a bad thing, contrary to some puritanical or rigidly harsh beliefs. Wanting is simply the energy it takes to move forward in life. It is the way we practice creativity and growth. Is it wrong to want to save the environment, create a healing institute, cure cancer, have a child, or succeed in business? Of course not!
The real problem with wants is that they become an identity. We become our wants just as we become our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and accomplishments. These are all identity trances. And like lessons 1 and 2, it is crucial to spiritual and psychological wholeness to recognize and practice observing and releasing any identity trance. When we believe thoughts, feelings, beliefs, accomplishments, personas and desires are the essence of who we are, we are on the road to spiritual and psychological problems. Identity trance-actions ruin our relationships with each other, our environment, our Higher Power and ourselves. The spiritual truth is we have those trances, but those trances are not who we are.
When you are identified with your Higher Self, that which is more than all of your trances put together,(you might think of it as the Oberserver or the Space of Peace),the things you desire and choose to manifest will be for the highest good of yourself and all concerned. This world needs more of those kinds of desires to be manifested. So, your wants are a good thing as long as you know who you really are,from the inside-out and create the fulfillment of your desires from that space.
AFFIRMATION:
Today I STOP-BREATHE and CENTER myself in that Space of Peace and CHOOSE to know what I want as I begin to fulfill my desires from the inside-out.
