Desire in Service of Fullness

"A professor once told me “happiness is for turnips.” Here the guidance is to look inside for happiness. But if every young person simply looked inward and found happiness, what happens to everything else? Is there a balance between being and becoming, and how does one attain it? Rupert says: ‘Becoming is always on the horizontal line of time; being is the vertical dimension, the ever-present now. If we regularly interpose pauses in our experience and sink down into being, that peace begins to stay with us when we return to the horizontal flow. Desires get a bad reputation because the ego uses them to seek fulfilment from a sense of lack. But there’s another category of desire that doesn’t come from lack – it comes from fullness. Have you not felt happy and peaceful, and from that called a friend to share dinner or a walk? That desire arises from the fullness of being. It’s the means of bringing happiness out into the world, in service of love and understanding rather than the ego.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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