Being is pure act uncontaminated by any entitlement. Refraining from desire rehearses the error of equating desire with the warrant to realise desire in form, as if that was all that desire could mean. Desire is another name for the pure act, but not knowing itself through the mind it immediately mythologises itself as homecoming, or subjection, loyalty or other such subtle forms that promise resolution to the self - as a sacred form of belonging. All of these terms are vectors in appearance or in the space of complementary presence and absence. What is called pure act is in an independent direction, not without something like intention, something like desire. The desire without which there could be no desire.