Intention and desire

[hkalchemy]

In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra writes about ‘The law of intention and desire.’ In what he calls the field of pure potentiality, we can introduce an intention and so ‘put the cosmic computer with its infinite organizing power to work for you.’ Intention, he goes on to say, ‘lays the groundwork for the effortless, spontaneous, frictionless flow of pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest‘ (p.72).

But what is this thing called intention? Deepak defines intention as ‘desire combined with detachment.’ To quote: ‘The future is something you can always create through detached intention, but you shuld never struggle against the present’ (p.73).

So many people do exactly this - struggle against the present. The present is what it is, and one must accept it. But one can also intend a new future. It seems to me that a more helpful term is to choose. ‘Intention’ or ‘detached desire’ basically comes down to choosing the future. Don’t just desire it, don’t just dream about it, don’t work hard for it, choose it.