"Red Thread of Desire"

Adyashanti speaks of the "Red Thread of Desire" to help us understand the source of our longings.

We all long for many things; health, money, friends, candy, a lover's touch. The mind attaches itself to these longings telling us, "Once we get this, that, the other thing, then we shall truly be happy." We spend months, years, lifetimes grasping for things that once obtained do not stop the longings. When we get what we want, we inevitably want something else.

The problem is one of (mis)orientation. The source of the longings, the tugs at our hearts, comes not from the outside, where we seek first and foremost, but from the inside. These longings come from our Soul that is reaching for us like a happy grandmother calling us to her soft lap. "Come to me and here you can rest, find ease, the never ending river of love."

Turn inward, then, towards the source of the Red Thread that tugs at your heart strings to find yourself again, and again.