Why Do We Want So Much?

Have you given any thought to my last question, "If you could create anything you wanted, what would you create?" There are so many choices. It's enough to drive a person crazy!

I don't know about you, but I sure want a lot. I want health and happiness for my family and everyone I know. I want prosperity for us all. I want peace and contentment. I want to experience the different people and cultures of the world, and find the source of life in each of them. I want to have and be enough, including expressing the gifts God's given me in whatever way he urges. And I want everyone else to have all they want, too, in a way that doesn't interfere with the lives of anyone else. Including mine.

They don't stop there. I want to know me. My fears and desires. My inner processes. How my soul uses the experiences of my life, and why it wants them. And most of all, I want to know my connection to God, and the illusion that keeps me separate from my inner Self and all that is. And how to pierce that illusion to know true wholeness.

Yes, I want a lot. But my inner explorations also help me understand why. They create the experience of having to choose among limitless possibilities. Learning to create them. And when not to.

Maybe it's just me. In a discussion with a college professor recently, he said he had everything he wants. The only exception was to feed the poor. Wow! I bow to his mastery.