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| He who is by desire bound, sees the mere shell of things around. The desires one is drawn toward manifests the ultimate source. These have their own reality, in other words, real effects of the real cause. Trouble begins only when one mistakes the effects for the cause. The point to be noted here is that the word desire can refer to something morally neutral within us or, in other contexts, to the main abnormality and distortion of our nature. A more accurate word would be addiction or craving, which is what a desire becomes when we allow it to absorb the finer energies of our psyche. Craving is a desire that devours us. But desires pure and simple are not to be killed or suppressed; they are an aspect of our human nature, which enter importantly into the process of inner transformation at a certain stage of the way. ~J Needleman~
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