On Desire: "I once had a dream that a blind fool began wreaking havoc in my village with his eccentricities. He sang so loudly, people put their fingers in their ears. He danced like a madman and knocked things over with his drunken pirouettes. He really knew how to clear a room. Somehow, I was the only one who liked him.
When we were alone, he turned to me and whispered, “Don’t choose things that are familiar to you, but don’t choose things that are disagreeable either. Choose things that are unfamiliar and interesting to you at the same time!”
As it turns out, the blind fool was a sage visionary after all.
He was warning me not to become stagnant in familiarity, but to aspire to risk while staying in tune with my instincts. Somewhere between those two things - magnetic and unknown - lives Desire.
Desire is not something to be ‘risen above’ as we’ve been routinely taught, but is the very meat of creativity. Desire is what propels us to evolve, which draws us into life, towards that which we love but don’t yet understand.
As David Whyte puts it, 'Desire demands a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself.'" - by Dreamwork with Toko-pa
