When what we want and what we need becomes equal…
Question from the Internet:
“How do you get what you want, and not necessarily what you need, without suffering negative effects?”
We can get what we want without negative effects when we come to want exactly what we need.
“Normally” we want whatever our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic ego with its insatiable desire for more wants. We are born with this insatiable desire for ever-growing selfish pleasures, fulfillment that disconnects us from Nature’s finely balanced general homeostasis, harmony.
We have no idea about what we actually need, as whatever we received today is already not enough tomorrow, the more we accumulate, get for ourselves the more empty, dissatisfied we feel, and constantly yearn, chase for more.
By default, we are acting, existing like cancer, inevitably, helplessly, excessively consuming everything until we destroy ourselves.
Fortunately, we have the ability and chance to learn how to balance ourselves by consciously, methodically harmonizing, adjusting ourselves with Nature’s laws that govern the general homeostasis life depends on.
We can consciously, methodically recognize how destructive our instinctive inner program, behavior is — without waiting for an ever-worsening crisis, intolerable suffering awakening us — and we can initiate a unique, conscious, proactive self-changing process, neutralizing, complementing our egoistic program with Nature’s altruistic, mutually integrated “upgrade”.
When we reach similarity, integration with Nature through a unique, purposeful, and practical scientific method, then we will understand what our true natural necessities are and what we have to do, provide in exchange for it.
Then we will reach the state where what we want and what we need will become the same, and we won’t have to face any negative consequences anymore.
Instead, we will sense the infinite, unprecedented “happiness/bliss” we are craving as the sense of balance and homeostasis we feel in the integral system we became benevolent, mutually contributing parts of.