Our Deepest Desire

"A person is what his deep desire is. It is our
deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to
come."

The Chandogya Upanishad
Chapter III

I desire Sobriety, the Freedom of Desire, in this Waking Life.
I desire Sobriety, the Greatest of Equanimity, in my Spirituality.

May I achieve my Goal, and be within the Spirit and the Life.

I Hear This

I hear this:

When I renounced selfish desires,
there was nothing morbid about it.

I had no grasping in the method,
I was not motivated to be wiser or holy.

I acted just to save myself from myself,
I refound a purity which was never lost.

In finding, I love what is there,
and I love what was not.

Deliver me from the Flame of Resentment

Lord, the only flame that will scorch me
is the flame of resentment.

By having resentments
my strength in you will falter.

May I give up resentment as fully and truly
as I gave up these selfish desires.