Desire, spiritual pain and freedom
Noël Staples, during his training as a spiritual director some years ago, was stimulated by ideas raised in a study day. He reflects on the experience.
‘I want, therefore I am’
It could be said that without desire you would be dead. In a sense life inheres in the tension between desire and its attainment – or nonattainment, as the case may be. From the day we are born until the day we die we always want something. Desire makes us strive to achieve things. Failure to achieve our wants can result in pain – physical, emotional or spiritual.
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