Spirituality can offer many benefits to our life. However, desires creates lots of problems. Almost all cultures are founded on the human demanding more form the life. You never get satisfied with what you have and always demands more. End result – you suffer a lot.
Ashok Vohra (department of philosophy, Delhi University) has published a nice article which explains how to balance your desires to avoid suffering:
Desires and even their fulfilment, instead of being a source of happiness might spiral so out of control that they become the root cause of suffering.