Desires motivate us to engage with the world through work, relationships, competition, achievement, etc. A desire can be noble and bring great happiness or ill-conceived and become the source of much misery. It isn’t the fulfillment of a particular outcome that will ultimately make us happy, it’s getting the feeling that we associate with that outcome. This is why it’s important to focus on whatever creates the feeling. Our mission is to generate the feeling we want and let go of the way in which it gets satisfied. The real secret to fulfillment lies in learning…
To let go.