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The Sacred Art of Tending Needs
A Sacred Life Begins With Simple Steps
Needs are holes.
They’re gaps.
They’re an emptiness that drives us towards whatever it is that will fill it.
Hunger is a need. It’s an emptiness. An ache that if left unfulfilled leads to increasing discomfort, then to delusional euphorias that can be useful if intentional and terrifying if not, then to weakness, and then eventually to death.
Thirst is an emptiness that will kill you faster.
Your need for clean air will kill you faster still if left empty.
Our so-called higher needs — the social needs, are gaps, too. Holes. Bits of emptiness within our being that can only be filled with something external.
Food must come from outside of me.
Water must come from outside of me.
Air must come from outside of me.
A need then is not just an emptiness.
It’s an emptiness that we cannot hope to fill on our own, and one that if left empty for too long will kill us.
This is true of all of our needs, not just the base survival ones.
