Attachment Quote by Gyalwa Dokhampa

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more…

— Joel Kramer

“When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a choice. We…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty…

— Dan B. Allender

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

— Lionel Shriver

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own…

— Mark Epstein

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

— Rod Stryker

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical…

— Samuel Alexander

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill…

— Osho

“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire…

— Marcel Proust