Why do we always want more than what we have
Question from the Internet:
“Do you sometimes want more than you have? If so, what?”
If we would not want more than what we have, we would not move a finger, we would simply stay in bed and wither away. Our matter, the engine that drives us is the stubborn, insatiable, ever-growing desire for more.
This desire in us is the basis of life, this is what modern society, marketing, social media, politicians and everything we know exploits, this is how we are all manipulated in this all-encompassing Matrix of the selfish, never-fulfilled desire.
We can categorize the actual desires into the instinctive/animate group of food, sex and family and into the social group of desires for wealth, power, fame, control and knowledge. But they are all only different variations of this overall, 100% subjective and egocentric desire for fulfilment that keeps us alive and makes us grow.
Only when we honestly and precisely study ourselves and recognize all the desires and intentions that constantly drive us towards more and more and more while we constantly feel increasingly empty and unfulfilled, only then do we acquire the ability to fine-tune and further develop ourselves.
When we learn and implement how to recognize, sort out and harness all of our desires and their incessant drive, then we can start to live a very different, truly fulfilled life without our instinctively destructive, cancer-like tendencies. This happens especially when we already know how to redirect all the fulfilment from the instinctive direction of “only for my own sake” to the intention of “only for the sake of others”.
By this, we also become compatible and integrated with Nature’s selflessly, unconditionally, mutually complementing system, with the ability to access and use all the resources we can’t even imagine with our present way of life. And when we all start living and behaving the same way, nobody will need to worry about their own fulfilment and well-being, since everybody else cares about the well-being of everyone.
This is something we can learn and implement in practice gradually, here and now, with the help of the right, purposeful and practical method. And it is better if we do so willingly, by our own conscious efforts, since Nature’s strict laws of integration and evolution’s relentless move towards a finely balanced, mutually integrated system — we are also integral parts of — will obligate us anyway.