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The highest of worldly desires is the desire to seek
worldly knowledge for the purpose of attaining
authority or even control.
No matter how hard we strive as long as our focus
is on satisfying the false ego through seeking
fulfillment of our worldly desires, we are never
relieved, neither can it bring happiness for more
then a moment.
If you are thirsty and you drink, it is only for that
moment when the thirst is quenched that we are
satisfied, and no matter how much we keep
drinking it will not satisfy us anymore.
This is the condition of our false ego no matter
which of these desires one tries to fulfill, it is short
lived and we look for more of that feeling of
fulfillment, yet it can never be more then temporary.
It is like sand in the palms of our hands that slips
away from us, the energy disappears and we are left
again, empty and unfulfilled.
Yet there is another desire that is borne from our
willing and peaceful surrender to our Lord that is
not a worldly desire, i Ё