Desire and fear run many people's lives most of the time.
Desire is the energy to add something to our lives which we believe will make us more fully ourselves.
Fear is a dread or anxiety of losing something and thereby becoming diminished.... less than who we think we are.
Both fear and desire obscure the fact that Essential Being cannot be given or taken away.
Being, in its fullness, is already within us, Now...
Paraphrased from Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks, pp. 58-9.