Here is what the sincere seeker of truth must see if he or she would ever be free: Just as we have the creative power to manifest our desires, to turn thought into matter, so does the reverse hold true in the unseen world within ourselves. Desire also holds the power to transform the self held by that desire into the form of its nature...and no desire can ever be free.

There is no such thing as any "tomorrow" that one may long for that does not bring with it some unseen sorrow. Here is the reason for this Fact of Life: no "tomorrow" takes possession of one's mind that is not the child of some desire... and desire always bears twins; so that never is there a want born without a fear, nor any fear that is born without a want.

Spiritually speaking, the cost of starting over is not what we pay to achieve some distant desire, but it is in our willingness to let go of -- to dare to live without -- any desire we may have whose promise of fulfillment drives us to search for it in yet another tomorrow.

Topics covered:  "We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started, And to know that place for the first time." -- T. S. Eliot; A paradox is understood when seemingly irreconcilable opposites are seen as complimentary; One question that we never ask ourselves: "If I do something that I regret, why does it seem like that action was the only choice in that moment?"

Part 1 We always seem so willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to fulfill some desire, and yet it is almost unheard of for us to sacrifice a desire for the sake of our Self. Part 2 The sorrow of man is that he is only free from his hunger when he eats.

There once was a fellow named "Will" Whose intellect fell down a hill, But it dragged Will along 'Cause he wasn't that strong, And neither ever got over their spill! Part II. Intellect serves the will of desire; so, regardless of accumulated knowledge, if his thoughts consider only himself, if his life serves only to acquire the properties of intellect in order to better please his desire f...

Part 1: All forms of momentum are mindless, but never more so than when a mind – blinded by desire – runs after what it wants without any awareness of its action. Part 2: Desire is in bondage to itself, but the Spirit of man is indomitable! Awaken the sleeping soul to its unseen captivity, and nothing in the world can stop its revolt and ultimate liberation.

Asking a desire to deliver you from the pain you feel for its presence in you is like asking the night to lead you to a place without darkness.

Guy explains that the cycle of wanting doesn’t end when we get what we want because the unconscious mind thrives on the sensation of itself, continuously seeking the next fulfillment. The satisfaction of desire is fleeting, and as soon as one craving is met, another arises to take its place. True freedom comes not from resisting or suppressing desires but from seeing through the illusion that wanting or not wanting can ever bring lasting peace...

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, than turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

Part I: Who serves only himself in this life may be first to find a seat at the table, but he eats from a plate filled only with emptiness. Part II: If we must dream, let us long for that life beyond ourselves; for who desires things already known, or otherwise imagined in forms reconfigured from fantasies too well worn? Behold! It is the Unknown Life that calls to us from a Desire untold;...

Only when I am one and the other, in the same moment, can desire be transcended and an altogether higher order of one's self be realized.