WHAT IS DESIRE?

The word "desire" covers a wide range of human wants, emotions and cravings. It can describe natural desires, which include hunger food for food, sexual longings, and desire for GOD. It can also covers unnatural cravings, which include greed and lust.
Desire is ultimately the longing to return to the Source of Creation. The dissatisfaction with what is and a longing and desire to close that separation is what fuels the act of Creation.
Desire is the raw material of Creation. The longing, the desire to close the gap within the longing, is the creative tension that will supply the energy for the new creation. It is for this reason that we cannot outright dismiss our desires. Desire at any and all levels of our being is important. Nor can we see our desires as something that needs to be given up. Rather we need to understand the desire and the source of it.
The flow of energy that sustains us arises from the intention that back up our life and caused us to come into physical existence. This flow of energy or substance lies at the source of our being and sustain us much the way the heart lied deep within our being and sustains the physical body through the flow of blood.
Metaphorically the heart is used to represent 4 interconnected things. First, it is the resting place for the creative spirit. Second, it is the source of the flow of our creative life energy. Third, it is the location for the intention and the flow of the energy aligns us with that intention. Fourth, represents the dream we wish to manifest. It aligns with the flow of energy and carries us to what we desire to create and the experiences we desire to have that fulfill the intention of our being and the reason why we are here.
The dream within our heart and the intention for our life are different forms of the same things. They are like flip sides of a coin. They just look different but they only take different focus. In one case the focus is on the intention we have for coming into life. The other is what we wish to create with the life we have. One look to the past, the other look to the future. Yet each is the same flow of energy.
The creative spirit and the flow of the creative life energy is what nurtures and sustain us. We can feel what serves or do not serve our being. But to do so, we must open to feeling and face the reasons why we shut down our ability to feel.
The heart has been traditionally seen as the seat of the emotion, especially of love and affection, and having the capacity for kindness and sympathy. In reality, the emotions and what we love are actually determined by what we think and believe about our own feelings. Similarly, it is the mind which determines the choice we make for, or against, tenderness, kindness, and sympathy.
Unless we explore the origins of our negative experiences at the deepest inner level we will not understand why we are creating them. There are desires that we have as a result of the societal programming reflected in our mind. We do things in life not because we freely choose to do them, rather we are simply following a program given to us at a very early stage of our development.
The Scripture explains in a very clear way the very nature of our desires. What we need to learn from it is how to maintain the positive nature of it.