{"id":437,"date":"2021-09-05T05:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backhandofgod.com\/?page_id=437"},"modified":"2021-09-06T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:50:42","slug":"desire-is-it-enough","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backhandofgod.com\/index.php\/what-is-manifesting\/desire-is-it-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire &#8211; is it enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">We often hear the clich\u00e9: &#8220;you can be whatever you want to be?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/backhandofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/I-can.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Well, if that were true, I would be a NBA basketball player, with a forty-eight inch vertical jump, and a darker complexion. If you&#8217;ve ever met me, you&#8217;ll quickly understand the impossibility of the task and that no matter how much I desire this, it could never come to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Desire isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s get real. &#8220;Being whatever you want&#8221; is a lie. I know. It sounds negative, but I prefer the term realistic. Not everyone can be the president of the United States, or Michael Jordan, or Albert Einstein. Remember, I&#8217;m speaking from an ego perspective here. After all, ego is a big part of manifesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">In a spiritual sense, we are all of these people, and so much more. If we embrace the idea that we are all a part of the universe and an extension of the the vastness of everything, then in essence, we can be everything because we already are. We are part of the universal consciousness and as beings of light, we are all interconnected and joined in a divine dance of spiritual perfection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">But who wants that, anyway? I mean, we&#8217;re here to manifest, right?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">I want a new car. Preferably a Ferrari. I want ego stuff. After all, what&#8217;s the point of life if I can&#8217;t have what I want. It says it in the Bible, doesn&#8217;t it? &#8220;Ask and ye shall receive.&#8221; Well, I&#8217;m asking for a big house with five bedrooms on the Mediterranean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll just desire it and it will come true. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The short answer: yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The long answer: should it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Remember that there are two kinds of desire: ego desire and universal desire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Ego desire is what I THINK I want. It is individually defined and based on what we think will fill that big old invisible void in our souls. At first, we think stuff will fill it. Money. Sex. Love. Partnership. Clothes. Dolce Gabbana. Gucci. Whatever it is, we want it. After we get it, after we manifest it, we want more. It becomes a ravenous desire, lusting after the next moment, always seeking to fill that thing we desire most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s an old Buddhist saying: &#8220;Is the purpose of life to attain the object of my desire, or to lose my desire.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Allow me to introduce: universal desire. Whereas ego desire is what we want, universal desire is what the universe wants for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Huh?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">You know that deep longing you feel in the darkest moments of your life. That hollow pain that calls for attention, and with fearful shame, we throw stuff at it. Ego stuff. Worldly pleasures and pain. Anything to shut the annoying yearning up. Well, that emptiness is what I call &#8220;God&#8217;s call.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Oh brother. The &#8220;G&#8221; word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;m not going to get all religious on you. Quite the opposite. I prefer philosophy to religion, which asks questions instead of answering them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever asked yourself: why do I desire the things I desire? Why do I shop? Or work late into the night? Or try to be the class clown? You see, instead of asking: &#8220;what do I want&#8221; the question we may want to ask is &#8220;why do I want what I want?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">When we ask this simple question, desire transforms from an objective into a journey, the likes of which will take us beyond the things we desire and towards the things we NEED. I&#8217;m not saying this journey is going to be a fun-filled amusement park of self-discovery. On the contrary, many of our desires come from a spiritual pain that needs a remedy, and by filling that hurt with desires instead of necessities, we ignore one of the great discoveries of life: understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So, you mean that I shouldn&#8217;t desire anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-colibri-color-6-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Desire can get you many things. Desire is an integral part of manifesting, but before we run out and get all the things we think we want, let&#8217;s stop and ask the bigger question: why? This is the beautiful thing about manifesting. 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