Want Away! Need Not.

Admit it, you want it. Don't try to cover it up like you don't; you only deceive yourself, and that's like those pathetic sewn leaves / bad cover-up job. What, are you ashamed? Go on ahead, and feel ashamed, then; maybe it is shame-worthy. Wear it, but don't invite it to stay; it will fade to nothingness when you are honest about it.

Openness breaks the downward pulling power of secrets. So if it is wrong, but you want it, do not lie to everyone about what you want. Speak freely, act accordingly, and be who you are. There will be an opportunity to give it up, if you feel ashamed about it: the way to do this is to not need it; do not require what you want.

In fact, even if it shames you not, and you feel it is right, want it openly, but don't require it: if you require it, you are a force of compulsion, and that makes it ugly; beauty grows on love, not strong force. We ourselves were not created out of need, but out of desire lacking need.

Need nothing; trust in the ultimate reality that you are provided everything you need; indeed, when you don't require it, all your *desires* are honored, either by fulfillment in physical reality, or by their banishment from your own soul because you experienced it in your mind and found it not worthy of creation.

Just don't quash that thought, don't extinguish it with force, but admit that it seeks a "trial run".

If you are always honest, and you are always willing to live without it in physical reality, you honor life.

Greed and lust are not mere wanting, but Obsessive Wanting Turned-To Needing. These will eat you and consume the world.

Wanting is a declaration of What Is True In Your World, and it is never wrong -- it is what makes you alive!

Needing anything other than what you have already been given is unbelief in the goodness of God to give you life and beauty as God does the lilies in the field, and it is idolatry because you seek not first the kingdom, but you seek your own desire and will, and so it is iniquity, too.

And the irony is that needing is totally unnecessary (!) because you are given more than you want when you are willing to give up on getting what you want, when you seek harmony and not your desires. God loves to please us, and shower us with blessings, and does even when we don't deserve it (especially when we don't!) except we can't see it or experience it when we are blinded but desire, when we have worshiped our wants. It is not punishment that we are choked off from experiencing our blessing; it is simply consequence, and when there is life, there is always a way up out of it, anyway.

So want away! Do not lie to yourself about what you want. If you feel guilty about what you want, then feel guilty, but there is nothing to do about it but admit both, and then accept what is true in your heart. If it something you want to be cleansed, how do you know the cleansing will not come from experiencing it in your head, and seeing its folly? God does not condemn the honest ("have mercy on me a sinner!"), but the self-deceiving condemn themselves.