Desire. The key to all evil.
We do need things in this world, on this planet, for good health. This is not the desire that leads to evil.
We need shelter (protection), food
and sanitation. And we should work to
provide a healthy habitat for the body, for
all of us.
We should thank God for the fruit
of this work, be grateful and rejoice, and
not go after more. But we do.
The desire for more than
healthy wellbeing manifests itself in the seven
deadly sins of pride, greed, lust,
envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
Our western society is
based and built upon this selfish desire. We all
want more.
We gobble up the
planet's resources, we fight for those
resources, we pride ourselves in having more of
them than others do, and we have the greed to
want and control everything that gives us more
power over these resources.
Do we not know why we are in the position we are? When just about every other film made today is about the apocalypse created by man.
The alternative is God. The
alternative is goodness. To choose goodness over
selfish wants and desires. This is sacrifice. This is
Love. But who wants to do this?
Millions of you will say that a
little harmless desire is not evil. But the
pursuance of it is a choice for self over Love. Over
service for all. This choice is a tiny droplet, made
by billions, that gives weight to the ocean of greed.
Healthy living requires
pleasure. We all have pain. Pleasure in moderation is
good to relieve the pain. This is not the desire that
leads to evil.
More than this, yes, the
pursuance of desire is evil.
So how do you decide? Do you
really need what you have now made plans to get
because you desire it? Are you being honest with your
answer to this? Look at others in the world and ask if
they need things more than you.
You need to keep healthy. You
cannot serve others if you are ill, angry, depressed
and upset. Don't deny the pleasures or needs that you
need. Look after yourself and respect yourself,
forgive yourself and Love yourself. And then serve.
You would get to know this if
you sacrificed all excess for Love. Why is it that
saints are the exception and not the norm?
But what do you want to do?
Where is your treasure? Where is your goal?