does the word 'desire' have negative overtones for you?

[Poet]

My question was more - what defines the spectrum from "desire" to "desirelesness"?

Based on that what Adonai wrote, one could say the spectrum of desire is defined by the amount of seperateness one experiences. For me, every desire is caused by a need for union. Humans want to transcend the separation they experience in this world and become again a creator instead of a creature. This means that the very situation of our human existence implies desires. If there would be a state of total union, there would be no desire because one desires already all which is desiring nothing.

So my answer to your question would be: Desirelesness is union, desire is separation.

But what I don't understand is why the creator had then the desire to experience itself at the beginning of creation...