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Frederick Lenz writes about desire as a restless mind that pulls us toward many wants. He suggests that meditation can quiet the thoughts, letting us see which cravings belong to our true purpose, or dharma. By stepping back, we can calm the turbulence and find happiness that comes from stillness, not from endless cravings.

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If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come…

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Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

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Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

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It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have…

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All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

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Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher…

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You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give…

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It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with…

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It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations…

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You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are…

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You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is…

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People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being…

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A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over…

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If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters…

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I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends,…

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A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they…

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Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is…

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As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

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You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

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When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

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Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

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If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as…

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We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

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To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the…

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Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and…

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When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world…

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When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can…

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The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

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The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

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Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

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Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.

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Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,…

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The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and…

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When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's…

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You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled…

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Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your…

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We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,…

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It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you…

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Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a…

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Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they…

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