2007-08-23 06:39:29 · 22 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope! Even when you refrain from doing something you initially want, it's because it's overridden by some other desire. And even acts viewed as altruism are ultimately fueled by a personal desire to want to see things a certain way. Damn I love Rand and LaVey.
2007-08-23 06:43:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think I know what you are saying here but in my own experience, I have made choices that were not my deepest desire because I knew that my choice at that moment could harm another. What I want is not always for the greater good of someone else and often love will push us into making choices that we really didn't want to make. However, looking at the question from the perspective of my Higher Self - what you say is true . The choice I make reluctantly ,could well be my deepest desire.
2007-08-23 06:49:14 · answer #2 · answered by hedgewitch18 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, their are many external factors that cause us to make a rational choice rather than a choice based on desire. Taking a job that pays well instead of pursing grad school or a career in Music might be one.
"Sophie's choice" on the extreme end.
Sometimes "doing the right thing" is counter to what our desires tells us to do.
Many choices are coerced from us via means of power and economics. Women who might want a career but their husband and culture tell them it's best to start a family and be a mom.
2007-08-23 06:47:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. I am going to the dentist today, and that is definitely not my deepest desire. It is, however, in my highest good. I have also found that doing the right thing, although in your highest good, are often the choices that are the most difficult to make and the ones that we least desire to make.
2007-08-23 06:46:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sometimes you make a choice that is of benefit to someone special to you, or that benefits society as a whole. Of course, the reason you make these choices is because it makes you feel good to please someone you love or to be a good person, so, perhaps, that actually *is* your deepest desire at the moment.
2007-08-23 06:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Maureen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps if one's deepest desire is impossible or the choice pits two equally desirable options against one another and you can only pick one.
In practice, it would be hard to truly find either of those things.
2007-08-23 06:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I think a lot of people forgo their deepest desires of the moment for a lot of reasons, chief among them being obligations to family or others. Guilt is a biggie, too.
2007-08-23 08:12:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We do not make choices based on desire, we make choices based on habits and conditioning. The concept of free will is a myth but the spiritual quest is to become an entity who is truly volitional and free of the limitations of habits and conditioning.
2007-08-23 06:46:12 · answer #8 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since graced with a new life in Christ, my deepest desire is that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven, which really not MY desire, but His.
Biblical desire is peace in that it is absence of your own desire in place of God's. THAT is a peace that passes all human understanding.
2007-08-23 06:44:44 · answer #9 · answered by Notfooled 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell of a question!
Do we always know what is our deepest desire every moment?
Could it be possible that we are "programmed" to obey our desires, even when we are "divided", in doubt?
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2007-08-23 06:55:14 · answer #10 · answered by Pour la Paix. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋