[MD] desires

[david buchanan]

"In the passion of love we have the mystic germ of what might mean a total union of all sentient life. This mystical germ wakes up in us on hearing the monistic utterances, acknowledges their authority, and assigns to intellectual considerations as secondary place." (William James, The One and the Many, 554)


"What became of the changes we waited for love to bring? Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?" (Jackson Browne)


 "What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad, or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.  ..When you are trained to despise 'just what you like' then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others - a GOOD slave. When you learn not to do 'just what you like' then the System loves you." (ZAMM, 232-3)


We like all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons. Desire is the pain of not yet having what we like. Hunger, lust and confusion are names for the lack of food, nookie and clarity. It's a heck of a motivator. What we like gets us out of bed each morning and it gets us off hot stoves. Its the continuing stimulus that creates the world in which we live.