Relish Greatly, Yearn Greatly

The great secret is to relish greatly and yearn greatly.

Buddhists at least in the western Yoda-style version say you should try to get rid of your yearning because it causes you dissatisfaction with your current lot. Even in our own tradition dragons are miserable evil creatures because they always want to hoard more gold and/or fear losing what they already have.  So much so that they don’t enjoy the gold they lie on. It is the absence that drives them, not the possession.

Common sense tells us that its basic human character to feel dissatisfaction with what you currently have if you are desiring more than what you currently have. Ambition and contentment don’t play nice together.

But common sense lies.  It is possible. Everyone loves babies while still working to have them grow up. That’s ambition and contentment at the same time.  Part of the fun now is the potential they will grow into then.

The master man is the one who loves his little house and his little family, his small yard and his climbing rose . . . and who loves them like a Jove!

While in his mind’s eyes still seeing so vividly he can taste it, and working like a madman to achieve it, the great house on the hill with broad tree-dotted acres of lawn rolling down to the sea, where several generations of superb, aristocratic descendants come and go.  That vision is part of why he loves what he has now so madly.

Every man a holy pirate king! Gleefully running your gold through your hands, eyes glittering at the uncharted seas that still lie unplundered before you.

“Be still and know that I am God” while also daring all.