DAY NINE
Your
Desires Are the Key to Your Spiritual Evolution
Your
desires are directions for your psychological development as a human
being. If you follow your desires, and ask yourself why you truly want
the things that you want, you will find that your desires always lead
to the attainment of certain emotional states.
For example,
right now you desire prosperity. But what is it that prosperity will
give you? Do you really want thousands of hundred dollar bills stocked
away that will be the physical symbol of your wealth? Or do you actually
desire the feelings you think you will have if you possessed enough
cash.
The answer
is obvious. You do not want actual money; that is, bits of colored paper
that need to be safeguarded from others.
What you
want is freedom, independence, the ability to share, to solve problems,
to heal yourself and others. Ultimately, you want to be happy.
These
are feelings, not things. These are emotional states that you desire.
And why do you desire these states? Because they are the next level
in your psychological evolution as a human being. You want to give more,
have more, and experience more. So you should look upon your desires
as positive, growth-inducing emotions.
Unfortunately,
we are often conditioned to feel guilty for wanting too much. Many believe
that there is a blatant contradiction between wanting to have it all
and feeling empathetic to the plight of less fortunate people. Basically,
we are led to believe that it is evil to be rich in a world filled with
poverty.
This attitude
misses a crucial truth of humanity. Evolution is an individual experience,
and each individual must learn for him or herself how to manifest more
of the life energy we all desire. We cannot help others by being pulled
down by the reality of the worlds suffering. Empathy
does not mean you must be as sad and poor as the rest of humanity. True
empathy means that you use your personal power, your hopeful energy,
and your wealth to solve the situations of the world that you find unsatisfactory.
Only when each individual stakes their claim to divine power can negative
physical experiences be alleviated.
Take five
minutes right now and feel the truth of these words:
I DESIRE
POWER, FREEDOM, ENERGY AND WEALTH. I DESIRE THESE FOR MYSELF AND FOR
EVERY BEING ON THIS PLANET. I WILL USE MY PERSONAL POWER TO HELP LIFT
THE STATE OF THE EARTH TO A MORE SATISFACTORY LEVEL. MY DESIRES ARE
POSITIVE, GROWTH-INDUCING EMOTIONS.
TAKE
ACTION: Your assignment today is to banish the guilt of desire.
Feel grateful, blessed that you are in the position to draw wealth to
you and make a commitment to use your wealth and power to help change
the conditions of the world with which you are uncomfortable.
QUOTE
OF THE DAY: One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants
to creativeness, to love, and to long life. --Alexander Bogomoletz
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