What does wanting know? What does wanting care? Wanting only works as a guide to life, through life, if it knows what it ought to want, and cares about doing it, and does it where, when and how it needs to be done reliably, dependably, regularly, relentlessly over the full course of our life. Can we be right about what ought to be done-- what needs to be done-- and do it where, when and how it needs to be done whether we want to or not? That is the only thing that matters. If we do it for the money, we are something money can buy. A quick look around will reveal what money knows, cares about, and does. Money has created the world we live in. Money only cares about making more money, in a "Profit At Any Price" kind of way. If money is all we want, money will be all we have-- along with the sex, drugs, alcohol and quality of life that goes with it. And so, the adage, "Be careful about what you want, and know whether it is worth having, before you sell yourself in its service." And the other one, "If you are going to want anything, want what ought to be, needs to be, should be wanted. In each situation as it arises. Want what maintains, sustains, honors and serves the flow of life and being by doing what is called for in each here/now that comes along-- no matter what." What do we do "no matter what"? How do we gauge whether it needs to be done? What guides our boat on its path through the sea? Is it wanting? Or, wanting what ought to be/needs to be wanted-- and doing that no matter what?
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