What is our highest desire? What do we value most in life? Not so much in the sense of moral values, but what is it we desire spiritually from our life. What do we want, what do we really, really want?
It is the question we ask at the beginning of every meditation course we teach.
To clarify your highest desire means knowing exactly what it is you want from your spiritual life. There is a top 10 list of common answers. But to really know yourself to know what you want. Take a moment to just be with yourself go within and do some self-inquiry.
Go deep within, until you find with complete certainty what it is you want most from life.
“Know Thyself” A famous quote believed to have come from the Greek Oracle of Delphi, and later attributed to Socrates. Points us to understanding the self first. This assertion, imperative in the form, indicates that a person must stand and live according to his nature. A person has to look and see themselves first. Socrates is also attributed with saying. “To know thy self is the beginning of wisdom”
But what does that really mean? To have a deeper awareness of our true self. A meaning which is probably best understood through lots of life experience or from a regular practice of meditation. There are probably other ways, but it is through life experience and regular dedicated practice of meditation that have given me those ah-ha moments of clarity.
Life unfolds through our desires. To know what your desire is and to walk the path of that desire. It is what each of us on our own personal spiritual path seeks. The path may be challenging to one’s beliefs, push our buttons, and just freak the hell out of our ego.
But from the perspective of attaining one’s highest desire, to wake up and experience the richest of lives there is only one path to follow.
Attaining one’s highest desire is not a belief system. It is often attained by going within to become aware of what and who we are, and of what is and what isn’t. Often to realize with conscious awareness what we are not so that we may become who we really are.
Life, as we know, hangs in a precarious balance in the year 2020. The world’s problems are by and large the creation of humanity. If there ever was a time to wake up and find yourself it is now.
When the student is ready the teacher appears. Finding a teacher, a guiding light, a book, or a conscious friend can make the journey so much easier. But it is the teacher within that must take the first step, to wake up and become aware of what we want most.
That choice is always motivated by the desire for happiness, that is what we all want a little more happiness.
Shuka