PREFERENCES – EXPECTATIONS – DESIRES – NEEDS

© 2011 Howard McQueen

Consciousness is this soup of preferences, expectations, desires and needs.

When not centered, there is confusion and anxiety.

When centered, there is an ability to shape all this raw,

often charged and competing energy into intention.

Is our intention reactive and coming from an unexplored and tumultuous inner place?

Is our intention responsive and conscious, coming from a well-explored inner place?

Often, our challenge is to hold this soupy array of seemingly polarized preferences, expectations, desires and needs, just like we want to be held: tenderly, compassionately, with unconditional acceptance. 

Yes, it is a tall order, and,

It is ongoing.

It is not an achieving

It is a quality of being with ...