Our deepest desires
"Time goes by very quickly," writes one my most favorite inspirators, Thich Nhat Hanh , "one day we may be surprised to discover our life is nearing its end, and we don’t know what we’ve done with all the time we’ve lived. Maybe we’ve wasted entire days in anger, fear, and jealousy. We rarely offer ourselves the time and space to consider: Am I doing what I most want to be doing with my life? Do I even know what that is? The noise in our heads and all around us drowns out the “still, small voice” inside. We are so busy doing “something” that we rarely take a moment to look deeply and check in with our deepest desires." This quote seems to be very relevant to my stage of life. What are my deepest desires? What do I really want? I remember how in 1986, during my "spiritual trip" to India, when I spent a couple of weeks in Haidakhan Babaji's ashrams and felt really close "to the Absolute," there was a desire in me to stay there for the rest