Desire Quotes

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Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to… — Rajneesh
Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very… — Rajneesh
Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more frustration. Instead of… — Rajneesh
Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a… — Rajneesh
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every… — Rajneesh
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,… — Rajneesh
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never… — Rajneesh
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but… — Rajneesh
Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval.… — Michael Josephson
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own… — Dalai Lama
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human… — Alexander Hamilton
It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you. — Tilopa
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people,… — Rajneesh
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a… — Rajneesh
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his… — Rajneesh
Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way. — Rajneesh
It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a thousand and one… — Rajneesh
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental… — Ivan Pavlov
Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling apart in different… — Rajneesh
Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great… — Rajneesh
Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy… — Rajneesh
Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed… — Rajneesh
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities… — Joy Page

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