Having desires in life is good, we all have some or the other desire. No one is free from it. It may not always be a materialistic desire; it may be at some other level. That's a fact that once a desire arises the mind wants to fulfill it. Now how far we go with our desires is in our hand. Some times our desires can become our obsession if we do not know how to handle them and then those desires can become a problem. When a desire becomes an obsession, it leads us on the path of self-destruction. Lately at the Temple I have been spending a lot of time and hearing the priest talk about the ways of life and it feels so good hearing them. Not only that, some of the things he says are also an eye opener for me.
We lead our life so casually and sometimes carelessly also, not realizing that with that we are obstructing our own path of spiritual growth. When our desires do not get fulfilled, we feel sad and depressed, all the time we want things to happen our way and when they do not then we feel that life is not being fair with us. Problem is that we humans never feel satisfied and stop. We want to keep achieving and achieving more and more. We keep shifting our goal posts. Nothing wrong in that as well, but when do not feel satisfied with what we planned for already achieved and want more than we are just being greedy. When it comes to money, I hear people say, what is more. That is true when it comes to money, how much ever you have you can spend and there is no limit to more. But then there should be some point where we should feel satisfied and above that whatever comes is the bonus for us in our life, else we will keep obsessing from one goal to another.
Human nature is such we cannot stop, we want to keep going on and on accumulating, fulfilling, conquering and in the bargain sometimes losing our sanity. Contentment level is not easily achieved. Hence time and again it's good to get these spiritual lessons, they are a reminder for us on how to conduct our life to live it consciously and to live in harmony with the nature and everything around us.
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"Our hearts are restless until they rest with God" says St. Augustine. Another way to interprete the great writer's saying would be also the insatiable needs of man. We want and want again yet we are not satisfied. Our desires keep pushing from a particular thing or stage to the next, some we achieve and others we do not.
As for me i have always sort to find fulfilment in little achievements. I know that things will always not happen my way so when they dont happen the way i planned or desired it, I learn to accept my fate and move on.
Thanks for the write up.
That's a very good level of contentment when you can just accept and move on. But sometimes I believe that it is also our test to strive on what we want to achieve and hence some push is required.
I totally agree with you on that....Aristotle in his Nicomeachean ethics would say all we want is happiness. At the end of the day all we want is to be truly happy and fulfilled. I gùess we stop at nothing trying to achieve this
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