Basic Needs

 Many people do not recognize their basic spiritual needs, and so they do not know the cause of their suffering.  Early in life we are more often goal oriented, such as school, career, partner, family, home.  It is somewhat more outward.  At some point there is this, "not quite enough" sense in our life.  Futile non-solutions are tried out.  They fail to fill up the "empty" in us.  The spiritual solution, if we stumble onto it, calls us into a desert, to confront our shadow, the darkness that developed from our interior life being ignored.  But within the darkness is the light that will set us free.  Unless we confront our own demons, our past that is unacceptable to us, we will demonize others and the world around us.  Resentment and self-pity just adds to the mounting suffering within.