Desire Quotes

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Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within. — Rajneesh
Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. — Rajneesh
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you… — Rajneesh
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.… — Rajneesh
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you… — Rajneesh
Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and… — Rajneesh
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first… — Rajneesh
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their… — Rajneesh
Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the… — Rajneesh
Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and… — Rajneesh
That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all… — Rajneesh
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to… — Rajneesh
Why do you dream? - because there are so many desires unfulfilled, and to live with unfulfilled desires is painful. In dream you try to… — Rajneesh
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have… — Rajneesh
Only those people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions,… — Rajneesh
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the… — Rajneesh
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is… — Rajneesh
The moment one starts sharing one`s being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains the same, yet… — Rajneesh
Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has… — Rajneesh
When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of… — Rajneesh
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,… — Rajneesh
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. — Rajneesh

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