All neediness originates in our desire to experience our true being.

This neediness will lead us down a lot of dead-end paths—which is exactly what it's meant to do.

As path after path proves fruitless and still leaves our heart longing for we know not what, we are finally driven to give up the search.

In quitting searching and simply accepting, we find what it is we have been yearning for—what all our neediness has been about.

We discover within ourselves our authentic being, which longs to rejoice in itself and express itself in endless creativity, since our true being is the very expression of the creative Source of all that is.

So if you experience neediness, don't chastise yourself. Don't seek to rid yourself of your neediness. Allow it to do its work. It will lead you where you need to go—to your own center.

Telling ourselves, "I shouldn't feel needy like this" accomplishes nothing beneficial. All we are doing is resisting the very path that is going to bring us to everything it is we are seeking.

When we are "sought out" and have no search left in us, we find.

We find because we stop looking for what has never been missing, only what has been forgotten—our forgotten self.

"Seek and you will find" is absolutely true.

The neediness that pushes us to seek is our divinely desirous fullness inviting us to experience our essential being.

All desire in every form, even when it's horribly needy and tragically distorted, is ultimately the call of our true nature to awaken and realize ourselves, painful as the path may be.

All neediness is in its source the fullness of love trying to happen.

About the Author:
David Robert Ord is author of Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ and the audio book Lessons in Loving--A Journey into the Heart, both from Namaste Publishing, publishers of Eckhart Tolle and other transformational authors. He writes The Compassionate Eye daily, together with his daily author blog The Sunday Blog, at www.namastepublishing.com