The Desire to Have

The Desire to Have - (2259)

Introduction

Within many egos is the desire to have.

For some egos it occupies a central pillar. For other egos, other desires are more important, such as the desire ‘to be’.

Examples of such egos are lust and greed.

To desire ‘to have’ has one constantly chasing a very personal yet illusive idea or even ideal. A certain sum of money, a type of person, an estate, a position, etc.

The Cycle

Normally, what happens is that as soon as ‘one has’, one uses having that thing, as a reason to dismiss all the other possibilities of ‘to have’. Yet that desire remains alive. Later on, that desire rears its ugly head wanting something new and the chase begins again.

Peace and contentment are only temporary measures in the presence of this desire. Peace and contentment are relative to the temporary satisfaction of this desire. It is not true peace or contentment. True peace and contentment must be found outside of this cycle, outside of this desire.

To Possess

The desire to possess is present in lust. This is an illusion, no one can possess another. At least old age and death will take that person away.

Some egos just wish to know that they still can possess. That ‘they still have it’ so to speak.

Success in working on that desire of ‘to have’ is to question the ideas or ideals that this desires pursues.

What does having such an ideal mean to us? Is the pertinent question here!

What it means to us is the weight that we put on having it.

Is ‘having’, the feeling of ‘having’ more important than the actual thing? Sometimes, well most of the time it is certainly is.

It is in this precise point that we have the door open to work on ourselves. Because that is purely a psychological opening that we can exploit.

Curiosity and to have go together. Here to have the experience is more important than actually the experience.

End (2259).

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