Spiritual wishes stumble and come up against the rough edges of one person, the descriptions of another.
Hesitations and procrastination – I have written extensively about it elsewhere – have no existence: but are an expression of these mental rains, of the concept factory:
They are the form that the last level of ripple takes after the emotional impact has occurred – here, anxiety, following a desire to belong, a fear of rejection (a desire not to [not belong]).
Thus, underneath it all, we find desire, emotional impact and finally, conceptual resonance.
The 3 levels are from same psyche.
On the other hand, even if they occupy hundreds of millions of pages in the works of men, altogether they only represent superficial layers of consciousness.
I see here an echo of the Buddha’s teachings…
and first lines of Shin Jin Mei :
“neither love nor hatred,
neither choice nor rejection”
These are two elements equivalent to the two stages preceding the crackles of thought:
“neither love nor hatred”: emotion
“neither choice nor rejection”: desire
If these ultimately superficial considerations take such a place in our literature, it is because we –literally– spend our lives in those areas…
Notes & Silence 
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My first thought is that you seem to hint that concepts do not exist. They do. As concepts. They may have a deeper basis – but they still « are ».
My second thought is that emotions and desire are concepts. And, as concepts exist, they have their effect.
How does one deal with such ephemeral yet powerful things? That is, perhaps, the question.
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I think the man who wrote this a while ago would have answered that it is not so much existence that is to be questioned as a binary notion (is / is not) than the level of existence where such elements as concepts emerge.
As for the man behind the computer today, he does have the slightest idea of what to say.
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Then, only silence is left…
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