While it is all well and good to want “things” in the physical world, and it is part of our nature as physical beings to want and to need material stuff, the Kabbalists teach that such desires — and even the fulfillment of those desires — will never make us happy. Additionally, they will never open us to the flow of goodness and pleasure that God is waiting to give to us.
Thus, we must change what we want. First, we must want a new attitude or way of approaching life and all it gives us — or doesn’t give us. We need to find a way to simply be okay with our current situation. This doesn’t mean we don’t want to change it for the better or take action to accomplish this. Until we manifest this desire, however, we choose not to suffer. We learn to be in the now, in the moment, okay with what is, with what we have. We learn to see what we have in a different light — with gratitude. We must feel good where we are while acknowledging that we want to be somewhere else, we want to receive something different.
Secondly, we must develop a desire for something different. We must want a new desire. We have to want to manifest a desire to receive not for ourselves alone but for the sake of giving unconditionally to others. In affect, the Kabablists tell us that what we should desire is a new consciousness. Only when we manifest this new consciousness will we truly be happy. And only then can we open ourselves fully to the flow of Infinite goodness and pleasure.
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I have found that my deepest desire is to know God and be love. Everything else is gravy.
Then you have found the key.
I love this Anir. So often it seems our dreams are dashed, our current passions shot down by others, generally those closest to us who offer ‘wise’ counsel. it usually has something to do with how little financial reward a chosen endeavor will produce. But what about the other aspects of doing something one feels passionate about? What about satisfaction, self-fulfillment, purpose? I believe when we find the one thing that offers this to ourselves and the best of who we are to others, then we step into the flow. And that flow then continues to widen…
Many thanks for this!! Years ago I read a wonderful book by Theodore Isaac Rubin called Compassion and Self-hate. He said it as clearly as you do — there are millionaires, billionaires out there who never seem to be ‘satisfied’ with what they have — no amount of money gives them the happiness they sought. Long story short — one must have some degree of ‘substance’ regarding their own self image — call it love???
This is a difficult thing to accomplish, I admit! But it’s a worthy goal. Step by step, we can take our desires and turn them into ones we want to manifest in order to share…to give to others a well. And we can learn to be satisfied with what we have now. But it is hard…and yes, loving ourselves and our current situation is part of it. When we hate either and long for something different, we can’t be in the moment, which is where God resides and creation happens.