2006-11-09 05:46:24 · 15 answers · asked by abstemious_entity 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
hey M, i got the q for an essay in National Exam review. no title. no author. it just got me thinking and i can see it has done the same thing to you.
2006-11-09 06:27:16 · update #1
FROM an essay, not for. sheesh
2006-11-09 06:28:06 · update #2
Basics first. What is the desire for? All desires are ultimately for getting happiness. Different people derive happiness from totally different objects and so they desire those objects.
But all the objects in this world are temporary and so is the happiness got out of them. After getting that object, the mind is happy only for a few moments and then it is attached to another object.
Our deepest desire is for unending happiness (eternal bliss) and that cannot be got from the temporary, ever-changing world, leave alone any object.
To get to the question of in what/whom can you get the eternal bliss, that question is a journey in itself. Find some teachings of a realized being and read their teachings...
2006-11-09 07:46:38 · answer #1 · answered by Rajesh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, contrary to the mainstream thinking of this day, you can't look into yourself. We are all bad people! None of us are inherently good. In fact, all of our righteousness, when held up to the highest standard that God has set, look like nothing but filthy, disgusting rags. That's very strong, but it's true.
So we can't look to ourselves. We've got to look elsewhere.
This may no be the answer you're looking for, but hear it out: You must go to the source of the One Who gave you life and knows all about your desires - GOD. He created you and gave you life. When man was created he had perfect fellowship with God. Man needed nothing - all he had was there, God was right alongside him. When man sinned and broke fellowship with God, he lost that perfect companionship.
I like to say it this way: each human being is born with a God-shaped void in his or her life. That person may try to fill it with all kinds of things: drinking, drugs, smoking, sex, gambling, or even things that aren't so bad like sports or music or other things. BUt that person will never have peace until he turns to God for the answers.
Go to the BIble. It is God's words to mankind today. In it are the answers (in principle) to every problem you have. Read it and you will learn what that desire you have is.
If you really want to know the answer to your question, find a Bible and read the Book of the Apostle John. It is an account of the life of Jesus Christ by an eye witness. Then tryin reading the First Epistle of the Apostle John (near the back of the Bible, a few books before Revelation). If you read it with an open mind and willing heart, you WILL find the object of your deepest desires.
2006-11-09 14:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by grounded_firmly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW. This question floored me!
Hmmm......
I suppose my deepest desire is happiness (because I just haven't thought about what it might be)
So I guess it would be What or Whom can make me the happiest. Person or activity. The motivation can be found within, the object... This depends if NO. I can't find it as an object. It's resides in my soul, my emotion.
Man this question has me so confounded. Awesome question! You got me.
2006-11-09 13:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by elliott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey ms abstemious_entity...to get an answer to this question first we have to find out what are deepest desires are, it sounds funny, but sometimes we are not aware of what we want, and even wheather what we desire is really what will fulfill our needs. As for the whom part...i think once we figure out ourselves, it becomes easier to know and understand others, and it's basic instinct that drives us towards that someone who is different, but yet so much like our self...it is this coming together of two souls which can fulfill our deepest desires...
excellent question abstemious...may you shine forever...:)
2006-11-12 02:03:12 · answer #4 · answered by S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your mental conditions. What is missing from your life, will eventually become your deepest desire and depending on the thing which is missing, you will find an object of your desire, who or which can fill the gap inside your soul. if you lack love, it will be a man/woman, if it is power, it will be something that makes you feel powerful etc.
2006-11-09 13:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by Zriah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to find the object that you desire you would have to look inside yourself. Everyones desires are different.
2006-11-09 13:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by I Ain't Your Momma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Circumstance
2006-11-09 13:47:49 · answer #7 · answered by Samuel O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
finding our way into the "what" or "whom" of objectifying our deepest desire...we find it into dissolution of the desire for whose search we are in by having a desire for that..... it may confuse, so read it one by one...
I wrote it like that after thinking so much to put some true meaning into which you can decipher with ease....
Urs friend AD...
2006-11-13 05:39:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It lives in you
2006-11-09 13:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ******* Brooklyn Bridge!!!
2006-11-09 13:49:40 · answer #10 · answered by the_breeders_cup 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋