Desire Quote by Meher Baba

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

— 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,…

— Anonymous

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

The Self is the internal abundance that can be realized at our will any time. It is capable of lifting us up from difficulties…

— Dhruva Bhargava

“The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make…

— Marc Foley

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

“When you live through the ego, you always reduce the present moment to a means to an end. You live for the future, and…

— Eckhart Tolle

“You attain a ‘temporary life’ through ‘egoism’ and an ‘eternal life’ without ‘egoism’. ‘Egoism’ is like the string that is wound around a top;…

— Dada Bhagwan

When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate…

— Gerald May

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest…

— Sivananda Radha Saraswati

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

— Eckhart Tolle