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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

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That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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The fewer the desires, the more peace.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

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Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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