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- If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts…
- People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their…
- The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are…
- Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy…
- Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
- As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that…
- The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world -…
- You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires,…
- You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
- Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
- Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary…
- If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind,…
- Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment…
- A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the…
- We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
- We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of…
- I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I…
- It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.
- If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God,…
- Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You…
- It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do…
- We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more…
- Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ...…
- To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and…
- A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own…
More Desires Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler