Desire - A Kiss of the Devine

Do you remember your first kiss? Did you feel a deep longing in your body? A subtle passionate awakening?

I remember I was kissed under a street lamp in a caravan park in Port St. John's in the Transkei. I was sweet sixteen. Those juicy lips on mine. Surprisingly sweet. No kiss like the first kiss - fresh, new and inviting more. We were innocent and free (but ma mère was just around the corner).

The dictionary says a kiss is “a salute made by touching with lips pressed together and suddenly patting them. From this, I say the dictionary knows nothing about kissing! I rather turn to the poets: Shakespeare said: A kiss is the seal of love. Coledridge called a kiss nectar breathing. Martial, an ancient Roman poet says that a kiss is the fragrance of balsem extracted from aromatic trees; the ripe odor yielded by the teeming of saffron; the perfume of fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in summer; amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts bees.

There is something about desire in a first kiss - spontaneous, innocent and wildly in the moment. Sadly, we tend to forget how desire feels as we grow older. Fear of failure, boredom, discontent or hurriedness are some of the killers of desire! But desire is everywhere! It invites us to be conscious.

What is desire?

Desire is a longing, a yearning to live with the freedom of the wild.

Desire is to say YES to all of life.

Desire is to surrender to our true nature.

Desire is to awaken to openness and authenticity

Desire is to give and receive pleasure where it meets us in Love

Desire is to surrender to our masculine energy, its strength and power, being clear, and grounded in oneself.

Desire is to surrender to into our feminine energy, soft, flowing, passionate - a wild goddess standing in her own luminious desire.

Desire is to surrender to the darkness and the light and not to choose one above the other - to see our shadow as having the potential to become our light

Desire is to know the timeless, the limitless, the eternal I AM.

Desire is to be inspired, possessed by the Devine

Desire is creativity

Desire is breath

Desire is stillness

Desire is curiosity

Desire is Life

Desire is a longing to be kissed by the One who knows you: Yourself. As Richard Rohr writes in Immortal Diamond In finding your True Self, you will have found a reference point [for God] that is both utterly within you and utterly beyond you at the very same time. St. Catherine of Genoa shouted as she ran through the streets of town, just as Colossians shouted to both Jews and pagans, The mystery of Christ is within you – your hope of Glory (Col. 1:27). As Song of Songs (1:2) poetically says: Let Him smother me with kisses - His Spirit-kiss divine.

Milandre