Thank you for responding Sara.

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We are free, we are love. Why would we want anything at all, if all is already within us?

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Because we do not know that it is already within us.

We have forgotten who and what we are.

Without the desire to know ourselves as pure consciousness, we would continue living as the illusion. Until a person has the desire to wake up to who they already are, they remain asleep.

For most people, it begins with a desire to be free from their pain. As they evolve, it shifts to a desire for liberation, knowing themselves as all that is. The Upanishads call this desire Moksha, the desire to know one's true nature.

There are inauthentic and authentic desires, but liberation always begins with a desire.

Eckhart would not written his book without a desire to do so. No one would read the book without a desire to know more about themselves. No one would learn to speak without the desire to communicate.