Thank you for such a thoughtful comment. Yes, your right on the same line of thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if the roots for the argument from desire come directly from the Platonic conception of the soul. Your thoughts are just a level above what I was going after... Which was simply, that in order to 'not give up' in life, there better be something real you're aiming for :) or else..there just won't be enough to sustain you through this difficult life.

These objects of desire are shadows of their deeper counterparts, a necessary direction and not an end.. as you pointed out. That's why it becomes a lifelong conversation inside of us because it is actually the something behind the 'something' we think we want, that we truly long for. But still, we necessarily start with the first 'Something' before we realize it is only a shadow.

I'm proof that many things can be studied and understood, but not at all 'known', or in effect. Only through clawing through my own cacoon are the truths I sought made real... and in such a way that they are unique to my life, as if they could be found nowhere else in the world. And it is those things, those immaterial objects of desire, which I can hardly even describe, that are my north star. Yet I still, from time to time, find myself searching in these 'physical world objects'... and scratching my head asking.. why won't they fix me! . haha.

We go through the same process. >>
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