What is Unworthy of Our Desire?

What I liked about Hinduism was how it embraces man as he is. If you seek material things...go ahead and get them, if you want pleasure, find a way to please yourself, whatever you desire and whatever makes you happy, you should go after. Granted the catch is that eventually you will find that what makes you happy isn't material things, or sex, or anything else of the world, but instead it is doing good works and the relationships you have with people. When Hugh talks about how a man descends from the dignity of his natural condition to what is unworthy of his desire when he desires visible things, I can't necessarily agree with him.
Does he believe that we are born pure and then we come into sin? Or does he believe that we are born sinners, and must deny ourselves? Or neither of these?
But it can't really be all that healthy to continuously feel like we are degraded because we desire things that we see here on Earth. Isn't that only natural? Should I feel like a horrid person because I want a new laptop, or the cute dress I saw at the store the other day, or because I want a nice house one day and an attractive husband...?
All of those are transitory and perishable.

Perhaps All Dragons Are Princesses

When I began reading the excerpt by Rilke, at first I thought that it was pretty pointless when she wrote of "The Experience" of a boy becoming one with the nature surrounding him. I still don't understand the point of it, and I don't think that that is possible. Or that if it is, then it can only exist for a very short period of time, so why dwell on it? If it can't be something to strive for. You just fall into it, sporadically.

I can relate a little better to some of her other thoughts about how loving another human being is the most difficult task entrusted to us, or when she teaches that we should "have patience with everything unresolved in our hearts and try to love the questions themselves"

I really enjoyed when she wrote about how we view life. She says that if our world has terrors, or dangers, or fears, it isn't against US, but instead they are our own self made terrors, and our own dangers and our own fears. In reality, we make our world. However we choose to perceive things and react to things is how we define ourselves.