Reality Creation

[anagogy]

I appreciate desires because they represent the feeling of life coursing through me.  There is nothing quite like keenly wanting to do the thing you are doing at this precise moment.  Enjoying the perfect meal, going for the perfect walk, watching your favorite movie, or perhaps desiring to cooperatively assist someone else and then basking in the feeling of being genuinely helpful to another.  Desire plus an absence of resistance equals beauty in motion.  Absence of resistance and no desire is beauty in stillness.  One represents the potential, and one represents the kinetic from my perspective.  Perhaps we could characterize it as the difference between peace and passion -- creator at rest and creator in motion.  Both are nice at the appropriate time.  

Absence of resistance is connection with the creator, in whichever form it appears in.  That is why it feels like love or bliss.  The less distortion, the less resistance.

The ego desires because the ego sees itself as separate, incomplete, and limited.  It exists as the demarcation between who you are, and where you are.  It is the self that consciousness has imagined itself to be.  If one saw themselves as truly unified with everything, then there is nothing to be desired because you already are whatever, whoever, and wherever you might seek.  I think there is a big difference between that state of being and the state of someone who is depressed and seemingly low on desires.  In the case of the depressed person, they actually have extremely strong desires, but they also have extreme resistance, so all that energy being summoned through them by their constant asking spurred on by negative contrast just beats them to death (literally).  There is nothing worse than having strong desire that cannot be actualized or expressed.  That is a sure fire path to all sorts of maladies.

So from a spiritual standpoint, the question we should always be asking in any given moment is: how can I soothe my current distortions/resistance?  The desires will take care of themselves, but the resistance is our work.  The desires will evolve to more and more subtle levels given their natural evolution, till they eventually become the pure distilled love that sees all things as love, whether it happens in the next moment or in six billion years.  It isn't a race, so we are free to savor and enjoy the journey.

Our conception of self is always evolving as we progress through the densities.