My thought for today is greed and lust. Greed is an excessive and selfish desire to acquire or possess more wealth, power, food, or other resources than is necessary or fair. Lust is an intense, consuming desire or craving.While most commonly associated with strong sexual attraction, the term can also refer to a powerful longing for non-sexual things, such as money, power, or food. Those are dictionary definitions. These are also two of the seven deadly sins, the false beliefs that I will never have enough or never be loved enough. Lust is intimacy without connection and greed is desire without fulfillment. They take us away from what our higher power wants for us. Gratitude can loosen the grip of greed and reverence can cure lust. Knowing that what we have is enough and seeing the object of our desire as not just a thing but also as a person can ease the holds that greed and lust place upon us.
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