Desire Defined
Desire is the hunger-pang of our spirit. It's emotional hunger, our spirit's longing for something it needs.
It needs more than food for the body to continue living and giving life. Our spirit desires more.
Our spirit desires to both give and receive.
It desires physical, emotional connection. It desires love and affection. Sex? Yes, it desires sex.
It longs to create and produce, to do meaningful work, to give and make a significant difference in the world while it is here.
Desire is our spirit yearning for life. It is that which makes alive longing for itself.
Desire denied is spirit denied. Spirit denied is life denied.
Desire fulfilled is spirit fulfilled. Spirit fulfilled is life fulfilled.
Our spirit, that which makes us alive, yearns to be fulfilled.
How Desire Feels
We can feel our spirit's desire as a longing and ache in the center of our chest, our heart. Sometimes it spreads its ache downward into our gut where it feels like physical hunger.
Desire: From Mild to Intense
Our spirit's desire can range from a mild want to intense, even debilitating desperation.
Acute and Chronic Desire
It can arise in a heart-beat as a sudden surprise, like Cupid's arrow piercing its mark.
It can make one slowly waste away when it's famished for days, weeks, months, and years.
Part 2 will discuss mind-based and experienced-based, life-denying and life-affirming, and suppressed, addressed, and expressed desire
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