The Key to Living Your Life's Desire

In Desiderata the inspiration poem by Max Ehrmann there is a word that holds the key to the whole of the poem. If you were to live this one word then you would be able to attain to the highest invitations in life.

It is the one word that the true invitation to Yoga tries to teach and invite you to know. It is the most practical of words but it is a much-misunderstood word. In the West we spend much of our time focused on this word but the way in which we focus on it keeps us from finding the key to a life of purpose, passion and prosperity.

For this Irish mystic storyteller this word is a riddle for most of us. It contains a practice that most everyone in the world worships and which keeps them enslaved. It is according to one modern wisdom teacher the cause of much of the world?s present problems.

If you live what this word invited then you would have stepped into a threshold place. If you lived the total invitation held within this word you would have the potential for what is called self-realisation and this is the experience of true happiness.

Max Ehrmann was a poet. Poets can take words and place them in a context where you are invited into the Deep Hearts Core. The beautiful invitation from Desiderata can be a poem that you simply read or a poem that you can use as a catalyst to becoming the beautiful radiance you are intended to become and to be revealed.

Poetry is not simply some sweet verse or some foreign language that only intellectuals can understand. If you have a hart and you are prepared to allow it to expand into the universal depth of its potential then poetry will, as it is intended bring you alive to your love nature.

So what is that word that if you live you will invoke the power of Desiderata - the list of desires that are at your deep hearts core and not simply something you are invited to acquire in a culture obsessed with the trinkets of never enough.

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If you went to a real wisdom school this is the word that would be written on the blackboard on the very first day. You would be called back to this word time and time again until you came to the revelation the poem invites. What is this word and why is it a foundational key to the true purpose of your life. More to come.

Desiderata and the Law of Attraction

Jack Cranfield writing in "The Key to the Law of Attraction" writes,

"Take time each day to step away from the clutter and the noise. A daily commitment to spend time in the still, quiet place is a commitment to clarify an inner peace. We need this time and space in our lives in order to remember who we really are, and what's important, and where our personal truth lies. It is time to calm the spirit and soothe the soul. It restores balance in our lives and it reconnects us to our source."

In Desiderata Max Ehrmann invites the same approach.

"Go placidly amidst the haste."

You might spend your time amidst the noise and haste and if you are like most modern Westerners your response is to armour what the mystic poet Mary Oliver calls "the soft animal of your body." You lock yourself out of what the poet David Whyte refers to as "a body in full presence." Another way of saying this is that you feel stressed out.

In order to distress many of us, and I have done this myself begin to self medicate. I self medicated for years on alcohol until it became clear that I was anything but placid and someone heading for a mental breakdown of some kind.

The ways that work for those of us willing to commit to a regular practice are meditation and/or prayer. Jack Cranfield recommends these in his book "The Key to the Law of Attraction."

Out of this practice you have more get up and go but it is not a kind of get up and go that is driven by a go getting personality setting out to prove that they are a winner. It is a get up and go that is alive, focused and in the word used in Desiderata, placid.

Placid means stillness. It means unruffled. It does not mean passivity. You are not invited to go into the noise and haste with a mild mannered kind approach. You are invited to move from the centre. You are centred in your true sense of self while the whirlwind of noise and haste whirls around you.

When I worked in London I took advantage of sitting meditatively in the mediation room of the London Buddhist centre. Usually sometime around midday I would get a real sense of well-being and calmness that I didn?t ever get when I missed sitting. I can say that I went placidly amidst the noise and hats that were the underground tube stations on the way too and from work.

I managed during the day to do the work in a calm and efficient manner and I got to remember and feel what the poet W. B. Yeats calls the peace that comes dropping slow and the peace that is at the deep hearts core. This kind of peace is often listed amidst peoples personal list of desires - their personal Desiderata.

So if you would like to feel more of the peace that comes dropping slow then download my Deep Hearts Core podcast that invites you to feel the peace of the infinite peace and to allow you to feel the real Law of Attraction and the real attractiveness within you. Simple click on the words Deep Hearts core and you will arrive at the beginning of a journey of destiny and fulfil your personal Desiderata.

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste

Go is such a small word yet a very powerful one. For many of us in this modern world we are forever on the go. We experience what has been called time poverty. In the very beginning of the poem Desiderata you are requested to GO placidly amidst the noise and haste. This is a request to action. It is a request to take your journey. This is the journey of the hero who is on a quest for the meaning of their life. This going is movement as Love in Action

Go suggests movement. It suggests forward movement. It does not imply sitting on the fence. It suggests motion and emotion. There are all sorts of other questions related to this request to go. These include knowing or having an idea at the beginning of how, when, where why and with whom you intend to go.

Why should you be concerned to go and “make your life matter?” Do you not have enough to do with all the pressures on your time? These pressures are going to increase. In fact these pressures are likely to increase exponentially as was the case over the last century. The result will be increased burnout in mind and body.

This can be avoided. I believe it is important that you learn to understand how you intend to go into the future. This is not something esoteric. This is common sense. At least it used to be common sense. Now very simple techniques that assist well-being and happiness have become uncommon sense.

Making your life matter will bring you to your senses. You are so speeded up in mind and body that sensuality, sexuality and feeling good are something that many of you now find in some form of addiction.

Making your life matter will make you feel more attractive. Your energy will flow in one direction other than several. This is because you will be clearly focused. You will be unafraid to have your own mind rather than be a clone of every opinion that happens to be fashionable at various times. You will become attuned to an intelligence that is beyond time and creates all things out of Love.

You will learn to know what matters beyond simply making a living. You will be unfolding a loving being. This being is YOU. It has always been you. You are merely in disguise. The unfoldment of you will bring beauty and harmony into your life and this will radiate outward into the world.

I can give you many many reasons why you will benefit from making your life matter. When you have read these and considered the option of taking the next step you are still left with taking the next step.


You and I often feel powerless at the events that happen in the outside world. As a result of this we learn to armour your minds and bodies to protect ourself. We feel powerless and so over a period of time we shut down. Our energies cease to flow. We become like a finely tuned six cylinder motorcar that has shut down five of these cylinders.

You are functioning but you are not truly alive. You are not as children are who dance their life’s energy until they have been told enough times NO. This poem Desiderata invites you to a celebration of YES saying. This is to say YES "I matter and I am going to make a difference not only in my life but also in the lives of others."

Do not think that this is arrogance. When you journey through this blog you will make a difference but it will be with a true sense of humility. This is not a popular feeling in a world so full of self-interest.

You have the power to choose. You can choose to ignore the fact that you are unique talented and loving or you can step onto the path of the hero and GO. You may not now feel any passion in taking this step. This is normal. The suggestion that you are important simply for being is not one that you have been taught to embrace.

It is my Work as a writer to encourage you to embrace this extraordinary potential that resides in the mind and body of each and every one of us. There will be those of you who strongly doubt this as a possibility for yourself and others. I believe that you are miraculous and that this is part of your nature.

You are still left with the decision. Do you take the next step or not? If you decide to take it, then what is it to be. That is the question. I am not here to convince you that you SHOULD take the next step. That would be a subtle violence. Rather let me suggest that you test it to see if you get any results. If you find that the information contained herein is not working then you are free to discontinue.

You are free to GO.