" This statement could have been in reference to
 the times when life is challenging, or when we
 are "confronted" with our shadow or even when we
 are just plain busy. Pleasure, devotion and the
 field of desire are sometimes like self-care....
 it is something we tend to put on the back burner
 when other things arise for us. It is important 
 to note that we are not looking at pleasure from
 an ego-gratification perspective, but the
 pleasure that is inherent in us from connecting
 to our source. In our tradition that source is 
 the Goddess. So it can be challenging/hard  for 
 many of us to stay with the meditation of desire
 and longing...we usually want to meet that desire
 with sometime short-term or sometimes
 fears/obstacles can arise in response to
 something so expansive and immense. It can even
 arise in judging others for not having the same  experience we are having or thinking they are affecting our 
experience. It can manifest differently for each of us."

Meditate upon your desire. When does it arise for you? Is it in response to something external that arises before 
you or is it self-arising from your inner experience? As you become aware, do not judge. Merely bring yourself to the 
present moment of sensation and breath. Begin to cultivate your practice in the moments that are not ideal, that you 
have not created to give you the perfect "spiritual" experience, when things are not necessarily going your way.
This is an intimate practice between you and the inner Beloved. 

 As Daniel Odier writes in Desire, "What if desire were to desire something other than objects? the Tantric masters
 then wondered. If desire were simply the incandescence that gives us the feeling of being alive, were intensity,
 were the tremoring vibration that carries us, then it would be absurd to allow it to be consumed by objects and to
 lose it once we posess the object or realize we cannot attain it. This profound movement is life itself, and this
 tremoring is the one that all yoginis and yogis  experience, precisely because they remain in the incandescence
 of desire without rendering it dependent upon the object."

Enjoy!
Nita