In a Nutshell

There are five levels of desire: food and sex, wealth, power, knowledge, and spirituality. The only one we can really fulfill is the last.

History is really a tale of heightening, insatiable desires.

Your negative attributes will eventually lead you to know the Creator.

The desire for more worldly things necessarily leads to greater emptiness because our true (unconscious desire) is to know the Creator.

Intention is the force that drives the outcome of actions, the aim behind the act.