Knowing the Line: Wanting vs Needing

                                                   I vowed to have a Colorful Life
 

✨ Knowing the Line: Wanting vs Needing

There’s a line finer than silk, subtler than breath—
Between what I need and what I merely want.
One keeps me alive.
The other keeps me chasing.

To want is not sin.
Need is not weakness.
But to confuse them—ah, that’s where suffering sneaks in.

I eat because I need food.
But I crave salted peanuts—until a tooth breaks,
And then I realize:
It was just a want,
And now I suffer for it.

Greed begins where the sense of enough disappears.
It blinds the heart and bloats the mind.
It takes from the future to please the moment.
It steals rest. It consumes peace.

The journey—whether in Zen or in Islam—is to know this distinction not intellectually,
but viscerally.
Through pain. Through awareness.
Through surrender.

May I want less, need little,
and be content with enough.
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