Desire is not a random force or an inconvenience. Desire is divine guidance, and nobody truly desires to do anything evil. Most evils and troubles arise from the failure to understand the anatomy of desire. Most people have knowingly or unknowingly created strife by straining for what they did not desire. This self-contradiction affects our health, relationships and effectiveness in everything we do. Desire literacy is one of the most urgent life skills, and fortunately, one of the easiest to learn. Desire is a spectrum from the feeling of satisfaction to the feeling of dissatisfaction. When you feel full with satisfaction, it means you are currently thinking of what you desire. If you feel the discomfort of dissatisfaction, craving or emptiness, it means what you are currently thinking of is not your true desire. This might seem obvious, but almost everyone has made the same mistake. We have often assumed that we could know our desire through whatever thought coincided with the feeling of craving. The wrong assumption is like this: "If I am thinking of meat while at the same time feeling hungry, it means I desire meat". "If I am thinking of alcohol while at the same time feeling empty inside, it means I need more alcohol". "If I am thinking of pornography while also feeling a deep craving, it means I want pornography". "If I lack satisfaction in my marriage, my dissatisfaction means my spouse has not given me enough". These are some basic examples of ways of misinterpreting the feeling of dissatisfaction. Each misinterpretation involves noticing that the feeling of lack coincides with a particular thought. We then make the mistake of taking the current thought for a representation of desire. The examples above include meat, alcohol, pornography and marriage. This diversity of topics was intentional, to show that only one error pertains to them all. This one error is behind all embarrassing weaknesses like alcoholism and pornography addiction. There is no difference between addictive cycles and the misdirection pertaining to a simple thing like diet. There is no need to look for a special psychological explanation of any addiction, perversion or criminal tendency. There is no need to confess anything to anyone who is not a law enforcer or a legal professional. There is only one anatomy of desire, which is divine guidance, and only one way of misinterpreting this guidance.