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What is a deep desire? Awakened desire?
One could rightly say that life is a journey of living in the YES to the best of our abilities, realizing that there are never any mistakes, and discovering that what one really wants is what life wants and what the Divine wants.
Rumi writes, “You must ask for what you really want.” The key to this instruction is the word “really.” The mind can easily think it wants something that does not align with the soul. The body can crave experiences that are not life-supporting. But what one really wants is what the soul wants, is what life wants, is what Totality wants.
At some point we learn how to recognize what this deep alignment feels like in our bodymind system. Then we can step into the fullness of life and actually live. In the meantime, we do our best, we learn, and we become more capable of discerning what we really want.
Deep desire is connected to deep decision. What one decides, desires, and knows profoundly is divine, is awake, is the Truth. With practice, deep desire becomes awakened desire.
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