Yes. For "Wherever we direct attention, we expend creative energy." —Samael Aun Weor
Therefore when we retrospect, we must no ruminate (identify with desire), but comprehend it. Comprehension begins the work of annihilation (fana) in order to produce subsistence or awakening within the Being (baqa).
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami