when you are present to your pleasure
you decoct, simmer and crystalize
the essences of your
desire
your deepest desires are your truth –
desires are only delusional, hungry ghosts
when you have never been truly present with
yourself,
and all you do is take on
the impulses of a culture that aren’t
y o u r s .
if you dismiss desire
in the name of your ‘spiritual path’,
I invite you to notice
the driving force behind
every single practice
a teacher undergoes
until they reach full mastery..
that force is a pure, clear
desire
to awaken to truth, to find lasting peace,
to recover wholeness, to touch the sacred..
it’s this simple, my love –
desire drives us to self-develop
and ultimately to self-realize,
to enlighten ourselves,
to meet life with fresh awe,
to thrive..
because all of these experiences
involve a state of pleasure
unique to each individual that experiences it
and we are pulled
– all of life is –
to these ecstatic sensations.
I’ll boil it down for you, my love –
there is no awakening or truth
without desire,
and there is no desire
without pleasure,
and there is no pleasure
without presence.
I repeat, there is no
t r u e awakening
without presence
in body, in sensation, in being
h u m a n .
I invite you to see the perfection
of the trial-and-error human adventure
where we get to know and follow
what we believe to be our truest desires..
no harm or hollowing can come of this path –
only deeper self-knowing
of what brings us genuine, lasting joy
and what doesn’t..
so I invite you into the riveting,
delicious exploration –
what do
y o u
most
desire?