Need
nyd = compulsion
It has been said that God gives us what we need but not always what we want. To me, this has always seemed a spiritual trap.
So, I need X dollars for the phone bill, and I want X dollars for a trip to Scotland, and that means God pays the phone bill but I have to skip the trip to Scotland? I can’t get behind this, and so it interests me that some dictionaries use the word want as a definition for need.
The Anglo-Saxon root means compulsion, or must have.
I think we get to decide on both—what we need, and what we want. The word compulsion means, literally, with a pulse. Something with a pulse has life.
If we will put life force, energy, chi, pulse into what we both want and need, they become the same thing and we can have all that we choose. Ask: How can I pulse life into what I choose today?
Infinition:
My needs and wants are both legitimate because they’re mine. I focus my life energy into both and I delight in manifesting my life.
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