What do we desire most?

"Christ is the motive for which we live a certain kind of life and for which we even risk our faces in the world, yet He is far from the heart, from how I look at my work, at the house, and above all from how I get up in the morning. If I think about my mornings, all that comes to mind is a void of awareness, and getting up to say Morning Prayer doesn’t change the substance of it.”

If, my friends, the problem is really that our heart (in other words, the source of feelings, of thoughts, of judgments) lacks this tension because it’s demoralized, if the actions, the initiatives we’ve taken up over all these years are of no use, if it didn’t serve to overcome this distance of Christ from the heart, then it’s not surprising that someone would ask, as Pope Benedict says, quoting Saint Augustine, “So what ultimately can move man in his soul, in his heart?”
“With deep human insight,” says the Pope, “Saint Augustine clearly showed how we are moved spontaneously, and not by constraint, whenever we encounter something attractive and desirable. Asking himself what it is that can move us most deeply, the saintly bishop went on to say, ‘What does our soul desire more passionately than truth?’ Each of us has an innate and irrepressible desire for ultimate and definitive truth. The Lord Jesus, ‘the way, and the truth, and the life’ (Jn 14:6), speaks to our thirsting, pilgrim hearts, our hearts yearning for the source of life, our hearts longing for truth. Jesus Christ is the truth in person, drawing the world to Himself.”