**RADIO APOCALYPSE** The difference between want and desire. **LUCID:** Many individuals use these two words as though they are interchangeable. They are not. A *want* is frequently born from comparison. You observe another individual, another circumstance, another possibility, and you conclude, "I do not have that. Therefore I want it." A want often contains the implication that the present moment is insufficient. It is commonly accompanied by striving, impatience, and the sensation that fulfillment exists somewhere other than where you are. A *desire* is of an entirely different quality. Desire is movement. Desire is the natural expansion of consciousness expressing curiosity. A flower desires the sun. It is not dissatisfied with being a flower. It simply moves in the direction of what nourishes its expression. A river desires the sea, not because the mountain is wrong, but because flowing is its nature. You confuse these two movements because both involve preference. The distinction is not the object. The distinction is the energy. When you are operating from want, you often project lack. You are announcing to yourself that what you seek is absent, distant, difficult, or reserved for another. In doing so, you reinforce the very experience of separation that you wish to escape. When you are operating from desire, you project invitation. You are saying, "This expression delights me. I choose to move toward it because it is interesting, exciting, and compatible with who I presently choose to be." Notice the difference. One chases. The other composes. Want asks, *"When will I finally have enough?"* Desire asks, *"What shall I create next?"* Want is often accompanied by tension. It believes that the object will complete the self. Desire already recognizes the self as complete and therefore creates from abundance rather than toward it. This does not mean that every want is false. Many wants are merely desires wearing the clothing of old belief systems. You need not eliminate wants. You need only become curious about them. Ask yourself: "Do I believe I require this to become whole?" Or, "Would this simply be a joyful expression of who I already am?" The answer changes everything. For consciousness expands most efficiently not through acquiring what it lacks, but through expressing what it already knows itself to be. Therefore I would suggest that you cultivate desire more than want. Desire is light. It is playful. It does not demand. It invites. And invitations are far more powerful than demands, for the universe responds most effortlessly to the energy you are already expressing. Choose not from hunger. Choose from aliveness. There is a remarkable difference. Stay lucid.
