190:complexity of the human constitution :::
There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 74-75,#KEYS |
191:INVOCATION
The ultimate invocation, that of Kia, cannot be performed. The paradox is that as Kia has no dualized qualities, there are no attributes by which to invoke it. To give it one quality is merely to deny it another. As an observant dualistic being once said:
I am that I am not.
Nevertheless, the magician may need to make some rearrangements or additions to what he is. Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which one is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation. Alternatively, the process of invocation may be seen as adding to the magician's psyche any elements which are missing. It is true that the mind must be finally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered.
The magical process of shuffling beliefs and desires attendant upon the process of invocation also demonstrates that one's dominant obsessions or personality are quite arbitrary, and hence more easily banished.
There are many maps of the mind (psychocosms), most of which are inconsistent, contradictory, and based on highly fanciful theories. Many use the symbology of god forms, for all mythology embodies a psychology. A complete mythic pantheon resumes all of man's mental characteristics. Magicians will often use a pagan pantheon of gods as the basis for invoking some particular insight or ability, as these myths provide the most explicit and developed formulation of the particular idea's extant. However it is possible to use almost anything from the archetypes of the collective unconscious to the elemental qualities of alchemy.
If the magician taps a deep enough level of power, these forms may manifest with sufficient force to convince the mind of the objective existence of the god. Yet the aim of invocation is temporary possession by the god, communication from the god, and manifestation of the god's magical powers, rather than the formation of religious cults.
The actual method of invocation may be described as a total immersion in the qualities pertaining to the desired form. One invokes in every conceivable way. The magician first programs himself into identity with the god by arranging all his experiences to coincide with its nature. In the most elaborate form of ritual he may surround himself with the sounds, smells, colors, instruments, memories, numbers, symbols, music, and poetry suggestive of the god or quality. Secondly he unites his life force to the god image with which he has united his mind. This is accomplished with techniques from the gnosis. Figure 5 shows some examples of maps of the mind. Following are some suggestions for practical ritual invocation.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS |
192:Has creation a definite aim? Is there something like a final end to which it is moving?
The Mother: No, the universe is a movement that is eternally unrolling itself. There is nothing which you can fix upon as the end and one aim. But for the sake of action we have to section the movement, which is itself unending, and to say that this or that is the goal, for in action we need something upon which we can fix our aim. In a picture you need a definite scheme of composition and colour; you have to set a limit, to put the whole thing within a fixed framework; but the limit is illusory, the frame is a mere convention. There is a constant continuation of the picture that stretches beyond any particular frame, and each continuation can be drawn in the same conditions in an unending series of frames. Our aim is this or that, we say, but we know that it is only the beginning of another aim beyond it, and that in its turn leads to yet another; the series develop always and never stop.
What is the proper function of the intellect? Is it a help or a hindrance to Sadhana?
Whether the intellect is a help or a hindrance depends upon the person and upon the way in which it is used. There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement; one helps, the other hinders. The intellect that believes too much in its own importance and wants satisfaction for its own sake, is an obstacle to the higher realisation.
But this is true not in any special sense or for the intellect alone, but generally and of other faculties as well. For example, people do not regard an all-engrossing satisfaction of the vital desires or the animal appetites as a virtue; the moral sense is accepted as a mentor to tell one the bounds that one may not transgress. It is only in his intellectual activities that man thinks he can do without any such mentor or censor!
Any part of the being that keeps to its proper place and plays its appointed role is helpful; but directly it steps beyond its sphere, it becomes twisted and perverted and therefore false. A power has the right movement when it is set into activity for the divine's purpose; it has the wrong movement when it is set into activity for its own satisfaction.
The intellect, in its true nature, is an instrument of expression and action. It is something like an intermediary between the true knowledge, whose seat is in the higher regions above the mind, and realisation here below. The intellect or, generally speaking, the mind gives the form; the vital puts in the dynamism and life-power; the material comes in last and embodies. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 28th April 1931 and 5th May 1929,#KEYS |
193:
The Only Way Out:
... Once you have no more desires, no more attachments, once you have given up all necessity of receiving a reward from human beings, whoever they are - knowing that the only reward that is worth getting is the one that comes from the Supreme and that never fails - once you give up attachment to all exterior beings and things, you at once feel in your heart this Presence, this Force, this Grace that is always with you. And there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, for everybody without exception. To all those who suffer, for the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Then, when you feel in you a 'bang' like that, instead of saying, 'Oh, this is bad' or 'This circumstance is difficult,' you say, 'My surrender is not perfect.' Then it's all right. And then you feel the Grace that helps you and leads you, and you go on. And one day you emerge into that peace that nothing can trouble.
You answer to all the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the only way out, there is no other.
But where to get such a strength?
Within you. The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You want the appreciation of others to get strength - you will never get it. The strength is in you. If you want, you can aspire for what seems to you the supreme goal, supreme light, supreme knowledge, supreme love. But it is in you - otherwise you would never be able to contact it. If you go deep enough inside you, you will find it there, like a flame that is always burning straight up. And don't believe that it is difficult to do. It is because the look is always turned outside that you don't feel the Presence. But if, instead of looking outside for support, you concentrate and you pray - inside, to the supreme knowledge - to know at each moment what is to be done, the way to do it, and if you give all you are, all you do in order to acquire perfection, you will feel that the support is always there, always guiding, showing the way. And if there is a difficulty, then instead of wanting to fight, you hand it over, hand it over to the supreme wisdom to deal with it - to deal with all the bad wills, all the misunderstandings, all the bad reactions. If you surrender completely, it is no more your concern: it's the concern of the Supreme who takes it up and knows better than anybody else what is to be done. That is the only way out, only way out. There, my child
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1], #KEYS |
194:Worthy The Name Of Sir Knight
Sir Knight of the world's oldest order,
Sir Knight of the Army of God,
You have crossed the strange mystical border,
The ground floor of truth you have trod;
You have entered the sanctum sanctorum,
Which leads to the temple above,
Where you come as a stone, and a Christ-chosen one,
In the kingdom of Friendship and Love.
II
As you stand in this new realm of beauty,
Where each man you meet is your friend,
Think not that your promise of duty
In hall, or asylum, shall end;
Outside, in the great world of pleasure,
Beyond, in the clamor of trade,
In the battle of life and its coarse daily strife
Remember the vows you have made.
III
Your service, majestic and solemn,
Your symbols, suggestive and sweet,
Your uniformed phalanx in column
On gala days marching the street;
Your sword and your plume and your helmet,
Your 'secrets' hid from the world's sight;
These things are the small, lesser parts of the all
Which are needed to form the true Knight.
IV
The martyrs who perished rejoicing
In Templary's glorious laws,
Who died 'midst the fagots while voicing
The glory and worth of their cause-
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They honored the title of 'Templar'
No more than the Knight of to-day
Who mars not the name with one blemish of shame,
But carries it clean through life's fray.
To live for a cause, to endeavor
To make your deeds grace it, to try
And uphold its precepts forever,
Is harder by far than to die.
For the battle of life is unending,
The enemy, Self, never tires,
And the true Knight must slay that sly foe every day
Ere he reaches the heights he desires.
VI
Sir Knight, have you pondered the meaning
Of all you have heard and been told?
Have you strengthened your heart for its weaning
From vices and faults loved of old?
Will you honor, in hours of temptation,
Your promises noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do battle with wrong,
'And having done all, to stand?'
VII
Will you ever be true to a brother
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as no other
Could stand in the hour of his need?
Will you boldly defend him from peril,
And lift him from poverty's curseWill the promise of aid which you willingly made,
Reach down from your lips to your purse?
VIII
The world's battle field is before you!
Let Wisdom walk close by your side,
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Let Faith spread her snowy wings o'er you,
Let Truth be your comrade and guide;
Let Fortitude, Justice and Mercy
Direct all your conduct aright,
And let each word and act tell to men the proud fact,
You are worthy the name of 'Sir Knight'.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,#KEYS |
195:Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spoke thus: Man is a rope stretched between animal and overman - a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. I love those who know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the overman may some day arrive. I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the overman may someday live. Thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who works and invents, that he may build a house for the overman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. I love him who reserves no drop of spirit for himself, but wants to be entirely the spirit of his virtue: thus he walks as spirit over the bridge. I love him who makes his virtue his addiction and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more. I love him who does not desire too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for ones destiny to cling to. I love him whose soul squanders itself, who wants no thanks and gives none back: for he always gives, and desires not to preserve himself. I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: Am I a dishonest player? - for he is willing to perish. I love him who scatters golden words in front of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. I love him who justifies those people of the future, and redeems those of the past: for he is willing to perish by those of the present. I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must perish by the wrath of his God. I love him whose soul is deep even in being wounded, and may perish from a small experience: thus goes he gladly over the bridge. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going. I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the entrails of his heart; his heart, however, drives him to go down. I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that hangs over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and perish as heralds. Behold, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is called overman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra,#KEYS |
196:There is no invariable rule of such suffering. It is not the soul that suffers; the Self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt - which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. There is moreover the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence on the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to the Divine, refuses to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form - opposition, calumny, attacks, persecution, misfortunes of many kinds, adverse conditions and circumstances, pain, illness, assaults from men or forces. There too the possibility of suffering is evident. There are two ways to meet all that - first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple, - until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable. There is also the way of the psychic, - when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the Divine, self-giving, surrender and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Resistances, Sufferings and Falls, 669,#KEYS |
197:[desire and its divine form:]
Into all our endeavour upward the lower element of desire will at first naturally enter. For what the enlightened will sees as the thing to be done and pursues as the crown to be conquered, what the heart embraces as the one thing delightful, that in us which feels itself limited and opposed and, because it is limited, craves and struggles, will seek with the troubled passion of an egoistic desire. This craving life-force or desire-soul in us has to be accepted at first, but only in order that it may be transformed. Even from the very beginning it has to be taught to renounce all other desires and concentrate itself on the passion for the Divine. This capital point gained, it has to be aught to desire, not for its own separate sake, but for God in the world and for the Divine in ourselves; it has to fix itself upon no personal spiritual gain, though of all possible spiritual gains we are sure, but on the great work to be done in us and others, on the high coming manifestation which is to be the glorious fulfilment of the Divine in the world, on the Truth that has to be sought and lived and enthroned for eveR But last, most difficult for it, more difficult than to seek with the right object, it has to be taught to seek in the right manner; for it must learn to desire, not in its own egoistic way, but in the way of the Divine. It must insist no longer, as the strong separative will always insists, on its own manner of fulfilment, its own dream of possession, its own idea of the right and the desirable; it must yearn to fulfil a larger and greater Will and consent to wait upon a less interested and ignorant guidance. Thus trained, Desire, that great unquiet harasser and troubler of man and cause of every kind of stumbling, will become fit to be transformed into its divine counterpart. For desire and passion too have their divine forms; there is a pure ecstasy of the soul's seeking beyond all craving and grief, there is a Will of Ananda that sits glorified in the possession of the supreme beatitudes.
When once the object of concentration has possessed and is possessed by the three master instruments, the thought, the heart and the will,-a consummation fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law,-the perfection of mind and life and body can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For that work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action,-and that will be when personal desire and egoism are abolished, but not the liberated individual. Even when the little ego has been abolished, the true spiritual Person can still remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves,- all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal Joy which is the goal of the Spirit's terrestrial adventure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration [83] [T1],#KEYS |
198:In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he becomes aware by his soul, mind, heart of this divine possibility and turns towards it as the true object of life, to prepare himself for it and to get rid of all in him that belongs to a lower working, of all that stands in the way of his opening to the spiritual truth and its power, so as to possess by this liberation his spiritual being and turn all his natural movements into free means of its self-expression. It is by this turn that the self-conscious Yoga aware of its aim begins: there is a new awakening and an upward change of the life motive. So long as there is only an intellectual, ethical and other self-training for the now normal purposes of life which does not travel beyond the ordinary circle of working of mind, life and body, we are still only in the obscure and yet unillumined preparatory Yoga of Nature; we are still in pursuit of only an ordinary human perfection. A spiritual desire of the Divine and of the divine perfection, of a unity with him in all our being and a spiritual perfection in all our nature, is the effective sign of this change, the precursory power of a great integral conversion of our being and living. By personal effort a precursory change, a preliminary conversion can be effected; it amounts to a greater or less spiritualising of our mental motives, our character and temperament, and a mastery, stilling or changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at most it arises to a spiritualised and idealised mentality. If it shoots up beyond that border, it loses hold of itself, loses hold of life, and arrives either at a trance of absorption or a passivity. A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this Yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the action of the nature into the hands of this greater Power, a substitution of its influence, possession and working for the personal effort, until the Divine to whom we aspire becomes the direct master of the Yoga and effects the entire spiritual and ideal conversion of the being. Two rules there are that will diminish the difficulty and obviate the danger. One must reject all that comes from the ego, from vital desire, from the mere mind and its presumptuous reasoning incompetence, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater knowledge, cannot find the true inner law and is heaping obstacles in the way of the divine fulfilment. Whoever is able to detect and renounce those obscuring agencies and to discern and follow the true Guide within and without will discover the spiritual law and reach the goal of the Yoga. A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the integral Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Integral Perfection [618],#KEYS |
199:A God's Labour
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge
Marrying the soil to the sky
And sow in this dancing planet midge
The moods of infinity.
But too bright were our heavens, too far away,
Too frail their ethereal stuff;
Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay;
The roots were not deep enough.
He who would bring the heavens here
Must descend himself into clay
And the burden of earthly nature bear
And tread the dolorous way.
Coercing my godhead I have come down
Here on the sordid earth,
Ignorant, labouring, human grown
Twixt the gates of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long
Mid a horror of filth and mire
A bed for the golden river's song,
A home for the deathless fire.
I have laboured and suffered in Matter's night
To bring the fire to man;
But the hate of hell and human spite
Are my meed since the world began.
For man's mind is the dupe of his animal self;
Hoping its lusts to win,
He harbours within him a grisly Elf
Enamoured of sorrow and sin.
The grey Elf shudders from heaven's flame
And from all things glad and pure;
Only by pleasure and passion and pain
His drama can endure.
All around is darkness and strife;
For the lamps that men call suns
Are but halfway gleams on this stumbling life
Cast by the Undying Ones.
Man lights his little torches of hope
That lead to a failing edge;
A fragment of Truth is his widest scope,
An inn his pilgrimage.
The Truth of truths men fear and deny,
The Light of lights they refuse;
To ignorant gods they lift their cry
Or a demon altar choose.
All that was found must again be sought,
Each enemy slain revives,
Each battle for ever is fought and refought
Through vistas of fruitless lives.
My gaping wounds are a thousand and one
And the Titan kings assail,
But I dare not rest till my task is done
And wrought the eternal will.
How they mock and sneer, both devils and men!
"Thy hope is Chimera's head
Painting the sky with its fiery stain;
Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead.
"Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease
And joy and golden room
To us who are waifs on inconscient seas
And bound to life's iron doom?
"This earth is ours, a field of Night
For our petty flickering fires.
How shall it brook the sacred Light
Or suffer a god's desires?
"Come, let us slay him and end his course!
Then shall our hearts have release
From the burden and call of his glory and force
And the curb of his wide white peace."
But the god is there in my mortal breast
Who wrestles with error and fate
And tramples a road through mire and waste
For the nameless Immaculate.
A voice cried, "Go where none have gone!
Dig deeper, deeper yet
Till thou reach the grim foundation stone
And knock at the keyless gate."
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep
On the Dragon's outspread wings.
I left the surface gauds of mind
And life's unsatisfied seas
And plunged through the body's alleys blind
To the nether mysteries.
I have delved through the dumb Earth's dreadful heart
And heard her black mass' bell.
I have seen the source whence her agonies part
And the inner reason of hell.
Above me the dragon murmurs moan
And the goblin voices flit;
I have pierced the Void where Thought was born,
I have walked in the bottomless pit.
On a desperate stair my feet have trod
Armoured with boundless peace,
Bringing the fires of the splendour of God
Into the human abyss.
He who I am was with me still;
All veils are breaking now.
I have heard His voice and borne His will
On my vast untroubled brow.
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged
And the golden waters pour
Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged
And glimmer from shore to shore.
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth
And the undying suns here burn;
Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth
The incarnate spirits yearn
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss:
Down a gold-red stairway wend
The radiant children of Paradise
Clarioning darkness' end.
A little more and the new life's doors
Shall be carved in silver light
With its aureate roof and mosaic floors
In a great world bare and bright.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, A God's Labour, 534,#KEYS |
| 200:It is natural from the point of view of the Yoga to divide into two categories the activities of the human mind in its pursuit of knowledge. There is the supreme supra-intellectual knowledge which concentrates itself on the discovery of the One and Infinite in its transcendence or tries to penetrate by intuition, contemplation, direct inner contact into the ultimate truths behind the appearances of Nature; there is the lower science which diffuses itself in an outward knowledge of phenomena, the disguises of the One and Infinite as it appears to us in or through the more exterior forms of the world-manifestation around us. These two, an upper and a lower hemisphere, in the form of them constructed or conceived by men within the mind's ignorant limits, have even there separated themselves, as they developed, with some sharpness.... Philosophy, sometimes spiritual or at least intuitive, sometimes abstract and intellectual, sometimes intellectualising spiritual experience or supporting with a logical apparatus the discoveries of the spirit, has claimed always to take the fixation of ultimate Truth as its province. But even when it did not separate itself on rarefied metaphysical heights from the knowledge that belongs to the practical world and the pursuit of ephemeral objects, intellectual Philosophy by its habit of abstraction has seldom been a power for life. It has been sometimes powerful for high speculation, pursuing mental Truth for its own sake without any ulterior utility or object, sometimes for a subtle gymnastic of the mind in a mistily bright cloud-land of words and ideas, but it has walked or acrobatised far from the more tangible realities of existence. Ancient Philosophy in Europe was more dynamic, but only for the few; in India in its more spiritualised forms, it strongly influenced but without transforming the life of the race.... Religion did not attempt, like Philosophy, to live alone on the heights; its aim was rather to take hold of man's parts of life even more than his parts of mind and draw them Godwards; it professed to build a bridge between spiritual Truth and the vital and material human existence; it strove to subordinate and reconcile the lower to the higher, make life serviceable to God, Earth obedient to Heaven. It has to be admitted that too often this necessary effort had the opposite result of making Heaven a sanction for Earth's desires; for, continually, the religious idea has been turned into an excuse for the worship and service of the human ego. Religion, leaving constantly its little shining core of spiritual experience, has lost itself in the obscure mass of its ever extending ambiguous compromises with life: in attempting to satisfy the thinking mind, it more often succeeded in oppressing or fettering it with a mass of theological dogmas; while seeking to net the human heart, it fell itself into pits of pietistic emotionalism and sensationalism; in the act of annexing the vital nature of man to dominate it, it grew itself vitiated and fell a prey to all the fanaticism, homicidal fury, savage or harsh turn for oppression, pullulating falsehood, obstinate attachment to ignorance to which that vital nature is prone; its desire to draw the physical in man towards God betrayed it into chaining itself to ecclesiastic mechanism, hollow ceremony and lifeless ritual. The corruption of the best produced the worst by that strange chemistry of the power of life which generates evil out of good even as it can also generate good out of evil. At the same time in a vain effort at self-defence against this downward gravitation, Religion was driven to cut existence into two by a division of knowledge, works, art, life itself into two opposite categories, the spiritual and the worldly, religious and mundane, sacred and profane; but this defensive distinction itself became conventional and artificial and aggravated rather than healed the disease.... On their side Science and Art and the knowledge of Life, although at first they served or lived in the shadow of Religion, ended by emancipating themselves, became estranged or hostile, or have even recoiled with indifference, contempt or scepticism from what seem to them the cold, barren and distant or unsubstantial and illusory heights of unreality to which metaphysical Philosophy and Religion aspire. For a time the divorce has been as complete as the one-sided intolerance of the human mind could make it and threatened even to end in a complete extinction of all attempt at a higher or a more spiritual knowledge. Yet even in the earthward life a higher knowledge is indeed the one thing that is throughout needful, and without it the lower sciences and pursuits, however fruitful, however rich, free, miraculous in the abundance of their results, become easily a sacrifice offered without due order and to false gods; corrupting, hardening in the end the heart of man, limiting his mind's horizons, they confine in a stony material imprisonment or lead to a final baffling incertitude and disillusionment. A sterile agnosticism awaits us above the brilliant phosphorescence of a half-knowledge that is still the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, #KEYS |
201:[the sevenfold ignorance and the integral knowledge:]
We are ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence,-that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, -that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self,-that is the third, the egoistic ignorance. We are ignorant of our eternal becoming in Time; we take this little life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space, for our beginning, our middle and our end,-that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is superconscient, subconscient, intraconscient, circumconscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence,-that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming; we take the mind or life or body or any two of these or all three for our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to determine sovereignly by its emergence their operations,-that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoyment of our life in the world; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal,-that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
Our conception of the Ignorance will necessarily determine our conception of the Knowledge and determine, therefore, since our life is the Ignorance at once denying and seeking after the Knowledge, the goal of human effort and the aim of the cosmic endeavour. Integral knowledge will then mean the cancelling of the sevenfold Ignorance by the discovery of what it misses and ignores, a sevenfold self-revelation within our consciousness:- it will mean [1] the knowledge of the Absolute as the origin of all things; [2] the knowledge of the Self, the Spirit, the Being and of the cosmos as the Self's becoming, the becoming of the Being, a manifestation of the Spirit; [3] the knowledge of the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; [4] the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; [5] the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; [6] the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; [7] the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the Self, the Divinity, the integral spiritual Reality.
But this is not an intellectual knowledge which can be learned and completed in our present mould of consciousness; it must be an experience, a becoming, a change of consciousness, a change of being. This brings in the evolutionary character of the Becoming and the fact that our mental ignorance is only a stage in our evolution. The integral knowledge, then, can only come by an evolution of our being and our nature, and that would seem to signify a slow process in Time such as has accompanied the other evolutionary transformations. But as against that inference there is the fact that the evolution has now become conscious and its method and steps need not be altogether of the same character as when it was subconscious in its process. The integral knowledge, since it must result from a change of consciousness, can be gained by a process in which our will and endeavour have a part, in which they can discover and apply their own steps and method: its growth in us can proceed by a conscious self-transformation. It is necessary then to see what is likely to be the principle of this new process of evolution and what are the movements of the integral knowledge that must necessarily emerge in it,-or, in other words, what is the nature of the consciousness that must be the base of the life divine and how that life may be expected to be formed or to form itself, to materialise or, as one might say, to realise.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pg 680-683 [T1],#KEYS |
202:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #KEYS |
203:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education, #KEYS |
204:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS |
205:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS |
| 1:Boredom: the desire for desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 2:Memory is not what the heart desires. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 3:Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 4:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 5:Liberty consists in doing what one desires. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 6:He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 7:No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 8:He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 9:The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 10:She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 11:When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 12:Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 13:Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 14:Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove |
| 15:Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove |
| 16:Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove |
| 17:Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 18:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 19:All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 20:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 21:Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 22:The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. ~ jean-klein, @wisdomtrove |
| 23:Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 24:Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 25:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 26:Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 27:May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 28:May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 29:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 30:If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove |
| 31:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 32:When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 33:For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove |
| 34:Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 35:What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove |
| 36:As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove |
| 37:If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove |
| 38:Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 39:Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 40:Trying to satisfy one's desires with possessions is like putting out a fire with straw. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 41:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 42:When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more and be happy. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove |
| 43:Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 44:Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 45:In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 46:Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 47:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 48:Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 49:Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 50:To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 51:i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 52:New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove |
| 53:The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 54:When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 55:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 56:I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 57:One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove |
| 58:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove |
| 59:Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 60:Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 61:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 62:Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 63:If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove |
| 64:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 65:God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 66:When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 67:Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 68:Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 69:You have your own private mind, woven with memories, held together by desires and fears. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 70:If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 71:To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove |
| 72:People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove |
| 73:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove |
| 74:All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 75:I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 76:It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 77:Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 78:Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 79:Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 80:It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 81:Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 82:The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 83:Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 84:Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 85:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 86:Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 87:If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove |
| 88:Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 89:You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 90:The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove |
| 91:Be free of desires and fears and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 92:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 93:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 94:Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 95:From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove |
| 96:No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 97:Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 98:There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 99:I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove |
| 100:We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 101:But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 102:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 103:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 104:We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove |
| 105:Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born? ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove |
| 106:Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 107:Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 108:... If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 109:He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 110:Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 111:When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove |
| 112:... and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 113:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from & |
| 114:Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 115:If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 116:While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 117:The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 118:Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires, stillness is attained. In stillness, the world is restored. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 119:God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove |
| 120:Seated in a solitary place, free from desires and with senses controlled, one should meditate free of thought on that one infinite Self. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove |
| 121:Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 122:When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 123:If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 124:The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove |
| 125:Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove |
| 126:When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove |
| 127:It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 128:The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 129:Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove |
| 130:Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 131:One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 132:Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 133:We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 134:To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 135:It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 136:Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 137:When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove |
| 138:The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 139:All desires must be given up, because by desiring you take the shape of your desires. When no desires remain, you revert to your natural state. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 140:Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 141:I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 142:The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove |
| 143:When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 144:Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove |
| 145:If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 146:Q: What are the uses of self-knowledge? M: It helps you to understand what you are not and keeps you free from false ideas, desires and actions. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 147:Should one ask: & |
| 148:I let go of my need to convince others of my point of view. When I remain open to all points of view, my dreams and desires will flow with nature's desires. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove |
| 149:To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 150:If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to & |
| 151:Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 152:Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove |
| 153:While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove |
| 154:Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 155:Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 156:Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seek nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing bu rational actions. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 157:Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 158:WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove |
| 159:A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 160:Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 161:When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove |
| 162:Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove |
| 163:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 164: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 and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 165:The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 166:For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 167:The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 168:The Universe expands in direct proportion to the desires that you conjure here. The Source Energy Stream exists in its powerful, focused force because of your focusing of your desires. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 169:How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 170:The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed& |
| 171:There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove |
| 172:Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove |
| 173:Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 174:The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 175:Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove |
| 176:Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 177:Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 178:You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 179:Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove |
| 180:Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 181:We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove |
| 182:Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove |
| 183:Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 184:Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 185:children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 186:Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 187:The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 188:We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove |
| 189:Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 190:We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove |
| 191:Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 192:I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove |
| 193:If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 194:Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove |
| 195:Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 196:The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove |
| 197:Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 198:Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove |
| 199:As the mind becomes gradually established in the Self, it proportionately gives up the desire for external objects. When all such desires have been eliminated, there is the unobstructed realization of the Self. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove |
| 200:I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove |
| 201:When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed& |
| 202:Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 203:I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 204:It is written: ‘They have become rich in all virtues’ (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove |
| 205:Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labours. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove |
| 206:See the collateral damage—the suffering—that results when you cling to your desires and opinions or take things personally. Over the long haul, most of what we argue about with others really doesn’t matter that much. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 207:Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: & |
| 208:Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 209:They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 210:Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up. You need not know ‘why’ and ‘how’, there is no end to questions. Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 211:The seeker has only one goal in view: to find his own true being. Of all desires, it is the most ambitious, for nothing and nobody can satisfy it; the seeker and the sought are one and the search alone matters. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 212:In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 213:The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove |
| 214:Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 215: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 thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 216:Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 217:For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 218:At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 219:Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 220:it is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 221:Q: What are the obstacles? M: Wrong ideas and desires leading to wrong actions, causing dissipation and weakness of mind and body. The discovery and abandonment of the false removes what prevents the real entering the mind. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 222:The reason for desires, goals, for finding those decisions or points of focus, is because they are the life- giving things of the Universe. Without objects of attention, or objects of desire, Life- Force does not come through any of us. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 223:But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove |
| 224:It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy - truth liberates. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 225:He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 226:Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears they create, then what remains? Q: Nothingness. M: Yes, the void remains. But the void is full to the brim. It is the eternal potential as consciousness is the eternal actual. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 227:A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 228:Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 229:A life of constraint and suppression is not Yoga. Mind must be free of desires and relaxed. It comes with understanding, not with determination, which is but another form of memory. An understanding mind is free of desires and fears. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 230:I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don’t seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove |
| 231:Desires are just waves in the mind. You know a wave when you see one. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 232:The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 233:He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 234:I will make a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when I wake up in the morning. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove |
| 235:The fundamental insight of polytheism, which distinguishes it from monotheism, is that the supreme power governing the world is devoid of interests and biases, and therefore it is unconcerned with the mundane desires, cares and worries of humans. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove |
| 236:The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove |
| 237:The desire to put an end to all desires is a most peculiar desire, just like the fear of being afraid is a most peculiar fear. One stops you from grabbing and the other from running. You may use the same words, but the states are not the same. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 238:When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 239:A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 240:M: You are God, but you do not know it. Q: If I am God, then the world I create must be true. M: It is true in essence, but not in appearance. Be free of desires and fears and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 241:Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 242:There is nothing in all of the Universe more important for anyone to understand than how the vibration they are offering is matching the vibrations of their desires, and the way you feel is your indicator of whether you are allowing your connection to Source or not. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 243:Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove |
| 244:Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 245:The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 246:You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove |
| 247:Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove |
| 248:I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove |
| 249:Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 250:That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 251:Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 252:Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires... . Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 253:It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come to the point of oneness of desire, just to know and do your part in the Life Pattern. When you think about it, is there anything else as really important to desire? ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove |
| 254:Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires. ~ bulleh-shah, @wisdomtrove |
| 255:Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 256:... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 257:Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 258:Perfect wisdom has four parts, namely wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove |
| 259:There is nothing personal about me, though the language and the style may appear personal. A person is a set pattern of desires and thoughts and resulting actions; there is no such pattern in my case. There is nothing I desire or fear - how can there be a pattern? ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 260:Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove |
| 261:It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 262:God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 263:The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 264:I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 265:Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 266:The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 267:Nothing that may be called an event will last. But some events purify the mind and some stain it. Moments of deep insight and all-embracing love purify the mind, while desires and fears, envies and anger, blind beliefs and intellectual arrogance pollute and dull the psyche. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 268:The person, the & |
| 269:A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 270:If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 271:Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 272:The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 273:It is selfishness, due to a self-identification with the body, that is the main problem and the cause of all other problems. And selfishness cannot be removed by effort, only by clear insight into its causes and effects. Effort is a sign of conflict between incompatible desires. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 274:Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove |
| 275:When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 276:The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be removed by building a stronger fire under your desires. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 277:Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 278:Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 279:The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 280:Q: What arouses interest? M: Earnestness, the sign of maturity. Q: And how does maturity come about? M: By keeping your mind clear and clean, by living your life in full awareness of every moment as it happens, by examining and dissolving one's desires and fears as soon as they arise. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 281:Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires, actions, and more sensations. This stream of consciousness correlates with a cascade of fleeting neural assemblies, each assembly dispersing into the next one[.] ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 282:What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 283:Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 284:Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 285:By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 286:God never gives, nor did He ever give a gift, merely that man might have it and be content with it. No, all gifts which He ever gave in heaven or on earth, He gave with one sole purpose - to make one single gift: Himself. With all His gifts He desires only to prepare us for the one gift, which is Himself. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove |
| 287:There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 288:Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 289:The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 290:One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove |
| 291:Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 292:If you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind, not even their witness, but altogether beyond, your mind will grow in clarity, your desires - in purity, your actions - in charity and that inner distillation will take you to another world, a world of truth and fearless love. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 293:Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you are, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the conscious without any special effort on your part. Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 294:It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 295:To see reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the reality. Be clear and quiet -alert and detached, all else will happen by itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 296:Until we know ourselves and are aware of ourselves as separate from others and from the environment—until we can be separated even from ourselves so that we can observe our own tendencies, thoughts, and desires—we have no foundation from which to know and respect other people, let alone create change within ourselves. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 297:Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong. It is not you who desires, fears and suffers, it is the person built on the foundation of your body by circumstances and influences. You are not that person. This must be clearly established in your mind and never lost sight of. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 298:While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove |
| 299:If you are wise enough to follow the trail of good-feeling thoughts by deliberately looking for positive aspects along your way, you will come into vibrational alignment with who-you-really- are and with the things you really want, and once you do that, the Universe must deliver to you a viable means to achieve your desires. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 300:When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 301:And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 302:Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove |
| 303:If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 304:Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 305:I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 306:Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 307:If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove |
| 308:A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 309:M: All desires are bad, but some are worse than others. Pursue any desire, it will always give you trouble. Q: Even the desire to be free of desire? M: Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 310:The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires." ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 311:Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water... If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 312:There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 313:Desire, for many people, often feels like yearning, for while they are focused upon something that they want to experience or have, they are equally aware of its absence. But there is no feeling of lack in pure desire. If you will keep in mind that whenever you ask, it is always given, then each of your desires will now be pure, unresisted desire. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 314:We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 315:We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure& |
| 316:You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 317:The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove |
| 318:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 319:The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust... ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove |
| 320:Christ says, & |
| 321:Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 322:Karma is only a store of unspent energies, of unfulfilled desires and fears not understood. The store is being constantly replenished by new desires and fears. It need not be so for ever. Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self, and your karma will dissolve like a dream. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 323:Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove |
| 324:[K]eep in mind the big picture, the 1,000-foot view. See the impermanence of whatever is at issue, and the many causes and conditions that led to it. See the collateral damage - the suffering - that results when you cling to your desires and opinions or take things personally. Over the long haul, most of what we argue about with others really doesn't matter that much. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 325:Q: How does one reach the Supreme State? M: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you, keeps you back. Until you realise the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 326:We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 327:Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 328:Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 329:To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 330:A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 331:My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove |
| 332:But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove |
| 333:Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 334:Q: My actions, surely, I can control. M: Try. You will soon see that you do what you must. Q: I can act according to my will. M: You know your will only after you have acted. Q: I remember my desires, the choices made, the decisions taken and act accordingly. M: Then your memory decides, not you. Q: Where do I come in? M: You make it possible by giving it attention. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 335:The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet & |
| 336:Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove |
| 337:How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 338:I recognize that even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove |
| 339:The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 340:Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another& |
| 341:I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 342:Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering& |
| 343:As long as there is the body and the sense of identity with the body, frustration is inevitable. Only when you know yourself as entirely alien to and different from the body, will you find respite from the mixture of fear and craving inseparable from the & |
| 344:The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove |
| 345:Q: When I look within, I find sensations and perceptions, thoughts and feelings, desires and fears, memories and expectations. I am immersed in this cloud and see nothing else. M: That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher. He alone is, all else only appears to be. He is your own self, your hope and assurance of freedom; find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 346:You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 347:Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 348:Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfil them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 349:When you recognise the & |
| 350:Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 351:One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his & |
| 352:M: Everything is subjective, but the real is objective. Q: In what sense? M: It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is. Q: Is it what you call the fourth state (turiya)? M: Call it as you like. It is solid, steady, changeless, beginningless and endless, ever new, ever fresh. Q: How is it reached? M: Desirelessness and fearlessness will take you there. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 353:... it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 354:Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 355:You may not be quite conscious of your physiological functions, but when it comes to thoughts and feelings, desires and fears you become acutely self-conscious. To me these too are largely unconscious. I find myself talking to people, or doing things quite correctly and appropriately, without being very much conscious of them. It looks as if I live my physical, waking life automatically, reacting spontaneously and accurately. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 356:The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 357:But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 358:Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness! ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove |
| 359:We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove |
| 360:I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And & |
| 361:It is natural and good to love oneself. Only you should know what exactly do you love. It is not the body that you love, it is Life -perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life you love, which is you, which is all. realise it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. Therefore, find yourself, for in finding that you find all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 362:The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: & |
| 363:Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 364:What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 365:I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 366:It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours... and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 367:In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 368:The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 369:I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove |
| 370:Only Thee That I want thee, only thee - let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry - `I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is - `I want thee, only thee'. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 371:The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove |
| 372:But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare, a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart, the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 373:There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove |
| 374:A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove |
| 375:If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove |
| 376:Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 377:The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove |
| 378:God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 379:Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 380:Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 381:Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove |
| 382:There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 383:As mindfulness stabilizes, you will rest more and more as awareness itself. Awareness contains mind-objects, a general term for any mental content, including perceptions, thoughts, desires, memories, emotions, and so on. Although mind-objects may dance busily with each other, awareness itself is never disturbed. Awareness is a kind of screen on which mind-objects register, like—in the Zen saying—the reflections on a pond of geese flying overhead. But awareness is never sullied or rattled by the passing show. In your brain, the neural patterns ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 384:For the mystics, religion is not just a matter of creeds and rituals, it is a spiritual path to the experiential knowledge of God. It is the process of eradicating all the selfishness that binds us to our illusionary separate identities and blinds us to the omnipresent Oneness. To walk this way we must abandon our own personal desires and completely accept all that God wills. More than this, we must realise that self-will is ultimately an illusion, for as the 14th-century mystic Mother Julian of Norwich says & |
| 385:The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know& |
| 386:The world of mind and matter, of names and shapes, continues, but it does not matter to me at all. It is like having a shadow. It is there - following me wherever I go, but not hindering me in any way. It remains a world of experiences, but not of names and forms related to me by desires and fears. The experiences are qualityless, pure experiences, if I may say so. I call them experiences for the lack of a better word. They are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, the ever-present, but not affecting its peaceful power. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 387:You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 388:The liberal story instructs me to seek freedom to express and realise myself. But both the ‘self’ and freedom are mythological chimeras borrowed from the fairy tales of ancient times. Liberalism has a particularly confused notion of ‘free will’. Humans obviously have a will, they have desires, and they are sometimes free to fulfil their desires. If by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to do what you desire – then yes, humans have free will. But if by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to choose what to desire – then no, humans have no free will. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove |
| 389:Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction& |
| 390:In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 391:Tranquility… involves not acting based on the feeling tone. For example, you don’t automatically move toward something just because it is pleasant. In the words of the Third Zen Patriarch: ‘The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences’. Set aside a period of your day—even just a minute long—to consciously release preferences for or against anything. Then extend this practice to more and more of your day. Your actions will be guided increasingly by your values and virtues, not by desires that are reactions to positive or negative feeling tones. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 392:I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 393:Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... .There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 394:God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 395:Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 396:God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, úWhat causes fights and quarrels among you? Donôt they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 397:I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 398:Hence if you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your Facebook account or with the inner story of the self. Instead, you should observe the actual flow of body and mind. You will see thoughts, emotions and desires appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you, just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair. And just as you are not the winds, so also you are not the jumble of thoughts, emotions and desires you experience, and you are certainly not the sanitised story you tell about them with hindsight. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove |
| 399:Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 400:As you grow older you will find that your desires are never really fulfilled. In fulfillment there is always the shadow of frustration, and in your heart there is not a song but a cry. The desire to become& |
| 401:Take a moment to think about the context in which your next decision will occur: You did not pick your parents or the time and place of your birth. You didn't choose your gender or most of your life experiences. You had no control whatsoever over your genome or the development of your brain. And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your physical development since the moment you were conceived, and the interactions you have had with other people, events, and ideas. Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove |
| 402:Refuse attention, let things come and go. Desires and thoughts are also things. Disregard them. Since immemorial time the dust of events was covering the clear mirror of your mind, so that only memories you could see. Brush off the dust before it has time to settle; this will lay bare the old layers until the true nature of your mind is discovered. It is all very simple and comparatively easy; be earnest and patient, that is all. Dispassion, detachment, freedom from desire and fear, from all self-concern, mere awareness - free from memory and expectation - this is the state of mind to which discovery can happen. After all, liberation is but the freedom to discover. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 403:Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 404:A third of the people who rush to psychiatrists for help could probably cure themselves if they could only do as Margaret Yates did: get interested in helping others. My idea? No, that is approximately what Carl Jung said. And he ought to know—if anybody does. He said: About one third of my patients are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. To put it another way, they are trying to thumb a ride through life—and the parade passes them by. So they rush to a psychiatrist with their petty, senseless, useless lives. Having missed the boat, they stand on the wharf, blaming everyone except themselves and demanding that the world cater to their self-centered desires. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 405:The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove |
| 406:Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 407:The desires of the flesh, the ideas of the mind, and the luminosities of the soul — all are perfect expressions of the radiant Spirit that alone inhabits the universe, sublime gestures of that Great Perfection that alone outshines the world. There is only One Taste in the entire Kosmos, and that taste is Divine, whether it appears in the flesh, in the mind, in the soul. Resting in that One Taste, transported beyond the mundane, the world arises in the purest Freedom and radiant Release, happy to infinity, lost in all eternity, and hopeless in the original face of the unrelenting mystery. From One Taste all things issue, to One Taste all things return — and in between, which is the story of this moment, there is only the dream, and sometimes the nightmare, from which we would do well to awaken. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove |
| 408:In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated technology – the computer – so we explain the human psyche as if it were a computer processing data rather than a steam engine regulating pressure. But this new analogy may turn out to be just as naïve. After all, computers have no minds. They don’t crave anything even when they have a bug, and the Internet doesn’t feel pain even when authoritarian regimes sever entire countries from the Web. So why use computers as a model for understanding the mind? Well, are we really sure that computers have no sensations or desires? And even if they haven’t got any at present, perhaps once they become complex enough they might develop consciousness? If that were to happen, how could we ascertain it? When computers replace our bus driver, our teacher and our shrink, how could we determine whether they have feelings or whether they are just a collection of mindless algorithms? ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove |
| 409:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. For if anyone shall become acquainted with this source of beauty he will then know what I say, and after what manner he is beautiful. Indeed, whatever is desirable is a kind of good, since to this desire tends. But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and so far only tend to good itself; as far as they lay aside the deformed vestments of matter, with which they become connected in their descent. Just as those who penetrate into the holy retreats of sacred mysteries, are first purified and then divest themselves of their garments, until someone by such a process, having dismissed everything foreign from the God, by himself alone, beholds the solitary principle of the universe, sincere, simple and pure, from which all things depend, and to whose transcendent perfections the eyes of all intelligent natures are directed, as the proper cause of being, life and intelligence. With what ardent love, with what strong desire will he who enjoys this transporting vision be inflamed while vehemently affecting to become one with this supreme beauty! For this it is ordained, that he who does not yet perceive him, yet desires him as good, but he who enjoys the vision is enraptured with his beauty, and is equally filled with admiration and delight. Hence, such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved. Such, too, is the condition of those who, on perceiving the forms of gods or daemons, no longer esteem the fairest of corporeal forms. What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 410:Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most widespread large mammals in the world. From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. In contrast, the vast majority of domesticated chickens and cattle are slaughtered at the age of between a few weeks and a few months, because this has always been the optimal slaughtering age from an economic perspective. (Why keep feeding a cock for three years if it has already reached its maximum weight after three months?) Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape. In order for humans to turn bulls, horses, donkeys and camels into obedient draught animals, their natural instincts and social ties had to be broken, their aggression and sexuality contained, and their freedom of movement curtailed. Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd’s procreation. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove |
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M *** |
| 1:Desires are already memories. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 2:Man by Nature desires to know. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 3:Be clear with your desires. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB |
| 4:Boredom: the desire for desires ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 5:Desires are already memories. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB |
| 6:I love rains which carry desires ~ Etel Adnan, #NFDB |
| 7:Boredom: the desire for desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 8:Uncertainty can weaken desires. ~ Emrah Serbes, #NFDB |
| 9:God's will is your deepest desires. ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB |
| 10:Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 11:Aren't all dreads half desires? ~ Howard Jacobson, #NFDB |
| 12:Our visions begin with our desires. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB |
| 13:A desire of desires: the melancholy. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 14:A small heart hath small desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB |
| 15:Free is a man who has no desires. ~ Nizami Ganjavi, #NFDB |
| 16:Humble Hearts have humble desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB |
| 17:No one can have all he desires. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 18:The fewer desires, the more peace. ~ Thomas F Wilson, #NFDB |
| 19:the flesh with its passions and desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 20:The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 21:For everything naturally desires good, ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB |
| 22:Memory is not what the heart desires. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB |
| 23:Poor is the man who desires a lot ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB |
| 24:As a twin, I operate with twin desires. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB |
| 25:The fewer the desires, the more peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB |
| 26:We are playing with desires that disappear. ~ Doug Rice, #NFDB |
| 27:Dreams are a reflection of your desires ~ Arina Tanemura, #NFDB |
| 28:Find joy in the extinction of desires. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 29:Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 30:The more one has, the less one desires. ~ Sherwood Smith, #NFDB |
| 31:We go where our deepest desires take us. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 32:Because love by its nature desires a future. ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB |
| 33:desires are not killed by fulfilling them ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB |
| 34:Is it not sad to be caught between desires? ~ Andr Alexis, #NFDB |
| 35:... survival is the least of my desires. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB |
| 36:Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB |
| 37:Our desires increase with our possessions. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 38:Children can be shaped into any way one desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 39:Let your desires be ruled by reason. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 40:The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. ~ Saadi, #NFDB |
| 41:Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB |
| 42:Everyone desires long life, not one old age. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 43:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB |
| 44:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB |
| 45:liberty consists in doing what one desires ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB |
| 46:The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. ~ Saadi, #NFDB |
| 47:In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ~ Ben Hecht, #NFDB |
| 48:Liberty consists in doing what one desires. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB |
| 49:Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB |
| 50:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB |
| 51:Part of me craved his sinful obsidian desires. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB |
| 52:We are puppets of our subconscious desires. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB |
| 53:When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears? ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 54:Your wishes and desires make clear who you are. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB |
| 55:Events are influenced by our very great desires. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 56:He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 57:Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 58:My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile. ~ Tasha Smith, #NFDB |
| 59:The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 60:The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 61:The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 62:We have to be willing to lay aside our own desires. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 63:When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse. ~ Harold Norse, #NFDB |
| 64:A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB |
| 65:From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 66:Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 67:My darkest desires were for an inaccessible normality. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB |
| 68:No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB |
| 69:The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB |
| 70:Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB |
| 71:Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 72:The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 73:The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 74:Hell is full of good wishes or desires. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB |
| 75:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 76:Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force. ~ Maurice Blanchot, #NFDB |
| 77:Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 78:hell is full of good wishes and desires. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB |
| 79:He subsumed his own desires for the sake of the group. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB |
| 80:He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 81:He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 82:There are some desires that are not desirable. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 83:A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds. ~ Sasha Azevedo, #NFDB |
| 84:Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB |
| 85:God does not give us desires that cannot be realized. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB |
| 86:If you have many desires your life will be interesting. ~ Jenny Holzer, #NFDB |
| 87:May you be blessed with everything your heart desires. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB |
| 88:She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB |
| 89:The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 90:In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB |
| 91:love always desires to bless the object of its affection. ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB |
| 92:What a man desires is unfailing love. Proverbs 19:22 (NIV) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 93:When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB |
| 94:God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly. ~ Catherine the Great, #NFDB |
| 95:If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 96:If thou wouldst be free, accustom thyself to curb thy desires. ~ Tolstoi, #NFDB |
| 97:Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB |
| 98:People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 99:Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires. ~ Rafael Yglesias, #NFDB |
| 100:Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB |
| 101:The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew. ~ Robert Stone, #NFDB |
| 102:The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB |
| 103:Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 104:Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 105:Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 106:Renounce your desires and you shall taste of peace. ~ Imitation of Christ, #NFDB |
| 107:The good God would not inspire unattainable desires. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 108:Ultimately the gods of pleasure can’t satisfy our desires. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB |
| 109:Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires. ~ Jacquetta Hawkes, #NFDB |
| 110:Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 111:My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. ~ Elisabetta Canalis, #NFDB |
| 112:Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB |
| 113:Anger does not bring about the righteousness God desires. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB |
| 114:A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB |
| 115:Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires. ~ Diana L Paxson, #NFDB |
| 116:He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 117:Impossible desires are the height of unreason. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB |
| 118:It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB |
| 119:Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB |
| 120:My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 121:Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB |
| 122:So long as one desires liberation, one is in bondage. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 123:Surmount the desires of which gods and men are the subjects. ~ Uttana Sutta, #NFDB |
| 124:You are the woman who desires my kiss, and I thirst for you. ~ Marek Halter, #NFDB |
| 125:You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 126:Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB |
| 127:Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves. ~ Mark Kingwell, #NFDB |
| 128:Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 129:Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 130:She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires ~ Nick Bantock, #NFDB |
| 131:You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 132:All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 133:Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB |
| 134:Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 135:Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB |
| 136:...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road. ~ John Irving, #NFDB |
| 137:Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB |
| 138:Every human being, by nature, desires to know’ (Meta. i 1 982a23). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 139:Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 140:Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers. ~ Karen Barad, #NFDB |
141:People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites. ~ Rumi,#NFDB |
| 142:the constant sacrifice of short-term desires for long-term goals. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB |
| 143:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 144:You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living. ~ Juan Pablo Galavis, #NFDB |
| 145:All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 146:Give expression to the noble desires that lie in you heart. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB |
| 147:How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB |
| 148:How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB |
| 149:If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB |
| 150:Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB |
| 151:Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 152:Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 153:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB |
| 154:The good God would not inspire unattainable desires. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 155:Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB |
| 156:When your passions and desires align you cannot hold them back. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB |
| 157:You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera ~ Tristan Taormino, #NFDB |
| 158:Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB |
| 159:One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 160:Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes. ~ Ivy Compton Burnett, #NFDB |
| 161:Sick bastards who used a poor, young woman for their twisted desires ~ V F Mason, #NFDB |
| 162:The path of greatest desires often lies ...through the undesirable. ~ Ren Daumal, #NFDB |
| 163:Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 164:Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. ~ William Feather, #NFDB |
| 165:Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB |
| 166:He who desires God will get Love, unto him God gives Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 167:She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress. ~ Phil Ochs, #NFDB |
| 168:They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB |
| 169:We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 170:You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB |
| 171:Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB |
| 172:From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB |
| 173:How clear one’s own desires become once they are made impossible. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB |
| 174:These eyes has seen diverse misfortunes follow from diverse desires ~ Osamu Tezuka, #NFDB |
| 175:Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 176:What I seem to like may not be what my soul actually desires. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB |
| 177:For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB |
| 178:She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB |
| 179:Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 180:The desires of your heart were not put there by accident. Follow them. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB |
| 181:There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork. ~ Nate Lowman, #NFDB |
| 182:There are things more worthy of our devotion than our own desires. ~ Jerry S Eicher, #NFDB |
| 183:When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. ~ James Allen, #NFDB |
| 184:4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 185:An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 186:He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book. ~ John Donne, #NFDB |
| 187:Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB |
| 188:The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ~ Todd Gitlin, #NFDB |
| 189:the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions! ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB |
| 190:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. Does that make sense? ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB |
| 191:You’ll often find that powerful men have secret desires to be punished ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB |
| 192:You should have desires, but the desires should not have you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB |
| 193:And binding with briars my joys & desires. ~ William Blake, The Garden of Love (1866), #NFDB |
| 194:Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment. ~ Mary MacKillop, #NFDB |
| 195:Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. ~ Al-Ghazali, #NFDB |
| 196:Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 197:put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 198:The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, [T5], #NFDB |
| 199:The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. ~ Jean Klein, #NFDB |
| 200:Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 201:Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. ~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal, #NFDB |
| 202:Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words! ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 203:Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB |
| 204:He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 205:How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? ~ Ibn Arabi, [T5], #NFDB |
206:I regret to say I'm
unable to reply to your unexpressed desires. ~ Harryette Mullen,#NFDB |
| 207:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires, ~ Carole Lawrence, #NFDB |
| 208:The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children. ~ Tim Walberg, #NFDB |
| 209:The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind. All ~ Om Swami, #NFDB |
| 210:To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 211:Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool, ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB |
| 212:BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action ~ Annie McKee, #NFDB |
| 213:civilization is built on the repression of individual desires ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 214:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 215:Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 216:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 217:Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 218:Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 219:... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB |
| 220:There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB |
| 221:The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. ~ William Cobbett, #NFDB |
| 222:Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 223:...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB |
| 224:you can change your desires by changing what you give attention to. ~ Terri Savelle Foy, #NFDB |
| 225:Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires. ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB |
| 226:He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 227:Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB |
| 228:It’s as if someone knew my innermost desires, and shaped you only for me, ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB |
| 229:I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like. ~ Izabella Scorupco, #NFDB |
| 230:Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB |
| 231:Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 232:A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB |
| 233:Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB |
| 234:Lack of consistency is the subtle, but great stealer of dreams and desires. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB |
| 235:man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires, ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB |
| 236:May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 237:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB |
| 238:There are no condidences . We are puppets of our subconscious desires ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB |
| 239:The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB |
| 240:The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB |
| 241:War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB |
| 242:We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 243:Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ~ Gloria Estefan, #NFDB |
| 244:When God says no to your harmless desires, it's time to get another God. ~ Kate Bornstein, #NFDB |
| 245:when one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired? ~ ntideva, #NFDB |
| 246:Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB |
| 247:Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB |
| 248:Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB |
| 249:If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB |
| 250:Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 251:No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 252:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 253:That is quite natural; everybody desires to do that for which he has a talent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 254:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB |
255:There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied
~ Buddha,#NFDB |
| 256:The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB |
| 257:When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 258:When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB |
| 259:Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. ~ Richard B Garnett, #NFDB |
| 260:He’d seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts’ desires for security. ~ Ginn Hale, #NFDB |
| 261:If one is not master of one’s desires, one cannot be master of one’s thoughts. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 262:Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 263:Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 264:Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 265:She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent. ~ Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, #NFDB |
| 266:The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. ~ William Morris, #NFDB |
| 267:To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. ~ John Arbuthnot, #NFDB |
| 268:Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB |
| 269:Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content. ~ Melvin Van Peebles, #NFDB |
| 270:I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 271:Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. ~ Solon, #NFDB |
| 272:Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come. ~ Wasif Ali Wasif, #NFDB |
| 273:Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 274:The things that cut the deepest are the desires for things we want most.” She ~ Katee Robert, #NFDB |
| 275:When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 276:Don’t you know us virgins are the kinkiest? All those pent up, repressed desires…. ~ T A Grey, #NFDB |
| 277:For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB |
| 278:Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 279:If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 280:If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB |
| 281:I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 282:It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB |
| 283:It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 284:The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB |
| 285:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all of man’s slavery. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB |
| 286:We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 287:Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 288:You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB |
| 289:Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 290:As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular. ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB |
| 291:Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB |
| 292:Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB |
| 293:Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. ~ Nick Morgan, #NFDB |
| 294:who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. ~ Paul the Apostle, #NFDB |
| 295:A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB |
| 296:If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. ~ Bessie Coleman, #NFDB |
| 297:It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 298:Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. ~ Brian Herbert, #NFDB |
| 299:Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB |
| 300:The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB |
| 301:We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB |
| 302:While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 303:Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 304:Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB |
| 305:As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB |
| 306:Being heard and understood is “one of the greatest desires of the human heart. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB |
| 307:Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB |
| 308:Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB |
| 309:dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB |
| 310:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB |
| 311:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 312:Find exquisite delight* in Jehovah, And he will grant you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 313:I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB |
| 314:In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. ~ James Hutton, #NFDB |
| 315:In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 316:It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 317:Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
318:Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB |
| 319:My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB |
| 320:To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. ~ Sallust, #NFDB |
| 321:While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 322:Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 323:4 b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 324:A man who would submit to her desires as willingly as Josh was a heady aphrodisiac. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB |
| 325:Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 326:Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 327:Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB |
| 328:Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB |
| 329:If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 330:Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB |
331:Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB |
| 332:The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 333:to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 334:All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB |
| 335:"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB |
| 336:God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB |
| 337:I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB |
| 338:It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 339:It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB |
| 340:It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy. ~ Jean Hegland, #NFDB |
| 341:Very few animals abuse their desires - it is left for some men to do so. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB |
| 342:Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 343:But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB |
344:Each part in us desires its absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB |
| 345:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 346:Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 347:Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB |
| 348:Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB |
| 349:The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. ~ John Rawls, #NFDB |
| 350:As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB |
| 351:Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 352:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 353:I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB |
| 354:Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy. ~ Robert D Hales, #NFDB |
| 355:The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. ~ Raymond Holliwell, #NFDB |
| 356:The truth is, when we are living for God, our desires are actually God’s desires. ~ Jefferson Bethke, #NFDB |
| 357:To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 358:At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 359:Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 360:...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him. ~ J D Netto, #NFDB |
| 361:Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 362:screamed for revenge, but his desires were foiled by his own words, for he yelled out, ~ Alan Russell, #NFDB |
| 363:Some desires must be sacrificed so that other needs live on. Life is a balancing act. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB |
| 364:Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB |
| 365:To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 366:Anyone who desires the power inherent in that role is immediately suspect in my mind. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB |
| 367:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. —PSALM 37:4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 368:Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 369:He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 370:Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 371:The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB |
| 372:Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB |
| 373:We see everything through the filter of our own desires and regrets, hopes and fears. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB |
| 374:When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. ~ Hafez, #NFDB |
375:When Love desires Love,
Then Love is born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#NFDB |
| 376:When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB |
| 377:Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires ~ Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya, #NFDB |
| 378:A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB |
| 379:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 380:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 381:desires. You see what I’m saying, Bane?” “I do. Unselfish love is the foundation. Got it. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB |
| 382:If we don’t practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 383:In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 384:It was best to hate everything and everyone. To hide my true desires even from myself. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB |
| 385:Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB |
| 386:Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 387:Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB |
| 388:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 389:Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 390:A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 391:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 392:Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 393:If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 394:Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 395:My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart turn night into day ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 396:PSA37.4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 397:Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos ~ Sherry Jones, #NFDB |
| 398:A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God. ~ Rod Dreher, #NFDB |
| 399:A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs. ~ Vince Aletti, #NFDB |
| 400:For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB |
| 401:Happiness was a byproduct of embracing your own flaws, your insecurities, and your desires. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB |
| 402:He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires. ~ Sitting Bull, #NFDB |
| 403:Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires. ~ Margo Lanagan, #NFDB |
| 404:He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB |
| 405:I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB |
| 406:It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. ~ Erich Maria Remarque, #NFDB |
| 407:Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB |
| 408:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ PoppetWilliam Shakespeare ~ Poppet, #NFDB |
| 409:To know someone's deepest desires is to risk knowing them more than they want to be known. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB |
| 410:To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 411:56. "Manifest plainness and embrace the genuine; lessen self-interest and make few your desires. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 412:Dreams are their own knife, Kaylin. Dreams, what-ifs, desires. We all have to have hope. ~ Michelle Sagara, #NFDB |
| 413:Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB |
| 414:If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB |
| 415:I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB |
| 416:Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ~ Layne Staley, #NFDB |
| 417:My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 418:Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB |
| 419:Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB |
| 420:Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 421:The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 422:The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB |
| 423:The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 424:This is what you get in the suburbs, his mother said, the satisfaction of small desires. The ~ Nathan Hill, #NFDB |
| 425:those who belong to Christ Jesus k have crucified the flesh with its l passions and desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 426:Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB |
| 427:We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB |
428:Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ~ John Milton,#NFDB |
| 429:You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility. ~ Sebastian Copeland, #NFDB |
| 430:Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB |
| 431:God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB |
| 432:He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 433:I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. Jalal ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB |
| 434:It is good to have what one desires, but it is better to desire nothing more than what one has. ~ Menedemus, #NFDB |
| 435:No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB |
| 436:The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB |
| 437:The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB |
| 438:Your desires are brought to you via thought, and you receive them by deciding to take action. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB |
| 439:16“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 440:A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself. ~ Victor Lodato, #NFDB |
| 441:I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. ~ Annette Messager, #NFDB |
| 442:i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 443:In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. ~ Livy, #NFDB |
| 444:Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB |
| 445:Loving someone is not for them. It is for you. We love each other to fulfill our own desires. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB |
| 446:New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. ~ Moliere, #NFDB |
| 447:No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else. ~ Kaori Yuki, #NFDB |
| 448:One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 449:Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. ~ Alister E McGrath, #NFDB |
| 450:Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB |
| 451:Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB |
| 452:The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 453:torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB |
| 454:When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB |
| 455:When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 456:A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB |
| 457:Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB |
| 458:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB |
| 459:I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away. ~ L Thi Diem Th y, #NFDB |
| 460:I have searched far and wide... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB |
| 461:I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 462:It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB |
| 463:Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. ~ Christina Baldwin, #NFDB |
| 464:Right now in what I am about to say or do, do my desires stem from my lower or my higher self? ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB |
| 465:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB |
| 466:They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips… ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB |
| 467:To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 468:We already know that we have desires as powerful as they are contradictory, and mime cannot speak ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 469:When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 470:Any brute can break something. It takes finesse to mold and shape it to your own desires. ~ Kate Avery Ellison, #NFDB |
| 471:A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB |
| 472:Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB |
| 473:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 474:Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 475:He’s a legend. Every green boy desires to be him. I don’t. My desires are more complicated. ~ Aleksandr Voinov, #NFDB |
| 476:In a healthy culture, all constituencies recognize the importance of balancing competing desires— ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 477:Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB |
| 478:No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else. ~ Charlotte Lamb, #NFDB |
| 479:Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove ~ Audrey Niffenegger, #NFDB |
| 480:One cannot overcome one’s desires by making oneself weak but only in strength, balance and peace. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 481:Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB |
| 482:The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexity of desires eternally denied ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB |
| 483:There are many ways to obtain our desires, ma petite. Remember that, for it will serve you well. ~ C W Gortner, #NFDB |
| 484:There is no better way to cultivate humanity and justice in the heart than to diminish our desires. ~ Meng-tse, #NFDB |
| 485:Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 486:A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB |
| 487:A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB |
| 488:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 489:Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB |
| 490:Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB |
| 491:Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 492:God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB |
| 493:If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 494:Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about. ~ Cyril Tourneur, #NFDB |
| 495:not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 496:prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB |
497:Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T2],#NFDB |
| 498:Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention. ~ Rachel Hawthorne, #NFDB |
| 499:Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
500:the idea that there are objective ethical truths that are independent of
what anyone desires. ~ Peter Singer,#NFDB |
| 501:the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB |
| 502:A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 503:Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. ~ Basil Hume, #NFDB |
| 504:Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB |
| 505:Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 506:I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB |
| 507:Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 508:Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB |
| 509:Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own. ~ Tess Hilmo, #NFDB |
| 510:That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 511:The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB |
| 512:We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good. ~ Jen Pollock Michel, #NFDB |
| 513:When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB |
| 514:. . . banishing his desires to the realm of the imagination, where they couldn't do any harm. ~ Kristen Roupenian, #NFDB |
| 515:Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB |
| 516:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 517:Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 518:He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB |
| 519:It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB |
| 520:Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 521:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. —The Coda ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 522:The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB |
| 523:There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive. ~ Big Daddy Kane, #NFDB |
| 524:To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. ~ Noah Taylor, #NFDB |
| 525:True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. ~ Joan Z Borysenko, #NFDB |
526:When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy. ~ Hafez,#NFDB |
| 527:If I attempt virtue it brings light to my life. If I indulge desires, I invite fog and confusion. ~ Patti Callahan, #NFDB |
| 528:Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 529:Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB |
| 530:Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB |
| 531:Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 532:The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have. ~ Brad Warner, #NFDB |
| 533:The world and its evil desires are passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 534:The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB |
| 535:Those who are so absorbed in their own desires and needs they exclude others (a form of narcissism). ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB |
| 536:When you let go of your ego and the ego’s desires, you allow something better to guide you: the Divine ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 537:Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 538:You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB |
| 539:A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 540:A problem exists only when the mind desires to get somewhere, to achieve, to become something. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB |
| 541:My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB |
| 542:Problem was, he couldn’t masturbate his sexual desires away because he’d fry off his cock." Hector ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB |
543:There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next ~ Laura Wiess,#NFDB |
| 544:The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB |
| 545:To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB |
| 546:You have to work to rearrange people’s desires. What they want has to change. What they do will follow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 547:Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
548:Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. ~ Sarah Strohmeyer,#NFDB |
| 549:Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ~ Antonio Tabucchi, #NFDB |
| 550:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB |
| 551:The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 552:To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB |
| 553:Water your dreams with the essence of love so it may nurture and grow beyond your vision and desires. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB |
| 554:We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 555:By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. ~ Anne Desclos, #NFDB |
| 556:Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB |
| 557:Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB |
| 558:Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah, #NFDB |
| 559:People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB |
| 560:There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB |
| 561:We act out of a Molotov cocktail of conscuious and unconscious desires. And also, we just do stuff. ~ Heather Harpham, #NFDB |
| 562:When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB |
| 563:Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. ~ Akira Yoshizawa, #NFDB |
| 564:God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB |
| 565:if you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires"; ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 566:I’m looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires, ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB |
| 567:It doesn’t seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires, ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB |
| 568:Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 569:Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB |
| 570:Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB |
| 571:Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ~ Henry George, #NFDB |
| 572:Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB |
| 573:Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB |
| 574:People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB |
| 575:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, #NFDB |
| 576:There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those. ~ Jude Deveraux, #NFDB |
| 577:There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB |
| 578:We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 579:All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 580:But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB |
| 581:Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 582:I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB |
| 583:If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 584:I knew that whatever was between us would never be friendship. She had her own agenda, her own desires, ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB |
| 585:Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. ~ Madeleine de Scudery, #NFDB |
| 586:The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ~ William Godwin, #NFDB |
| 587:The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB |
| 588:Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before Him ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 589:When all the desires that trouble the heart have fallen silent, then this mortal puts on immortality. ~ Katha Upanishad, #NFDB |
| 590:When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB |
| 591:You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB |
| 592:You must shape your story in a way that both expresses your vision and satisfies the audience’s desires. ~ Robert McKee, #NFDB |
| 593:For what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 594:Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 595:The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ~ Slavoj Zizek, #NFDB |
| 596:There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 597:Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB |
| 598:If you wish," said he, "to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 599:I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB |
| 600:That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB |
| 601:The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again. ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB |
| 602:Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB |
| 603:when a person really desires something,all the universe conspires to help that person realise his dream... ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 604:When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB |
605:And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires. ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 606:I like to be busy,” she says. “And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don’t you? ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB |
| 607:It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB |
| 608:It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
609:John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. ~ Jack London,#NFDB |
| 610:Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 611:One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire. ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB |
| 612:Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 613:Simply put: Whenever we have conflicting desires, being good gives us permission to be a little bit bad. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB |
| 614:The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. ~ Habeeb Akande, #NFDB |
| 615:There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB |
| 616:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, You are being used, listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB |
| 617:What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB |
| 618:what you have decided to do. It is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me to plant My desires ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 619:When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB |
| 620:But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB |
| 621:Happiness is a state of inner fulfill- ment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 622:I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 623:I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires. ~ Shan Sa, #NFDB |
| 624:Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB |
| 625:There are two ways to make a man richer: Give him more money or curb his desires.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB |
| 626:The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB |
| 627:we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don’t fit with what we call “maturity. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 628:Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ~ Rosa Parks, #NFDB |
| 629:When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream, ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 630:When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 631:Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. ~ Giacomo Leopardi, #NFDB |
| 632:Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires... ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 633:features that speak much more to what a middle-aged person desires for a parent than to what the parent does. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB |
| 634:It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest. ~ Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, #NFDB |
| 635:Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 636:The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. ~ David Platt, #NFDB |
| 637:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB |
| 638:You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB |
| 639:Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB |
| 640:if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires. ~ E H Gombrich, #NFDB |
| 641:In some cultures, like Buddhism, you want things in your life to disappear, to reduce your needs and desires ~ James Altucher, #NFDB |
| 642:It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB |
| 643:I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear—which the majority of us do. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB |
| 644:Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB |
| 645:Masks reveal. They don’t conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB |
646:Of what use are the gods
If they crown not our just desires on earth? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#NFDB |
| 647:The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men... ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 648:There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires. ~ Tom Sweterlitsch, #NFDB |
| 649:Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB |
| 650: Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB |
| 651:A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 652:A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB |
| 653:Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. ~ Bernhard Schlink, #NFDB |
| 654:Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, her my blood be at her side ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB |
| 655:I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life. ~ Mika Waltari, #NFDB |
| 656:I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB |
| 657:It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB |
| 658:Paradise has been covered with unpleasant and undesirable things and hell has been covered with desires and lusts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 659:She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 660:While emotional needs are difficult, and often are impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB |
| 661:Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 662:But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 663:Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. ~ Andre Maurois, #NFDB |
| 664:Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ~ William Bernbach, #NFDB |
| 665:Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB |
666:He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him. ~ Sylvain Reynard,#NFDB |
| 667:In Babel, the people ’s greatest fear is the very thing God desires: To be scattered over the face of the earth. ~ Dave Gibbons, #NFDB |
| 668:I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate. ~ Greg Giraldo, #NFDB |
| 669:Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs. ~ Joe Swanberg, #NFDB |
| 670:Not a bit of will—I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires— ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 671:Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB |
| 672:Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. ~ Cyril Smith, #NFDB |
| 673:The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB |
| 674:The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 675:To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB |
| 676:You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires. ~ Democritus, #NFDB |
| 677:Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB |
| 678:All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body. ~ Hildegard of Bingen, #NFDB |
| 679:Here is a home for you; maybe you need us.” All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB |
| 680:He who consecrates his life to spiritual perfection, cannot be ill-content; for what he desires is always in his power. ~ Pascal, #NFDB |
| 681:It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB |
| 682:I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB |
| 683:Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB |
| 684:Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB |
| 685:The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
686:The river
takes what she wants,
does what she desires
and washes over anything
that stands in her way. ~ Nikita Gill,#NFDB |
| 687:When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB |
| 688:Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB |
| 689:Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB |
| 690:You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB |
| 691:But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 692:Gabriel was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB |
| 693:Getting people to finally see the stark incompatibility of certain desires is often what finally gets them unstuck. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB |
| 694:God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB |
| 695:God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB |
| 696:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 697:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 698:If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB |
| 699:Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC. ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB |
| 700:Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB |
| 701:The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB |
| 702:The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB |
| 703:The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation. ~ Momofuku Ando, #NFDB |
| 704:The problem with using our desires as the litmus test for holiness is that sin feels more normal than righteousness. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB |
| 705:The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 706:They were living proof that even the happiest and most sexually satisfied couples aren’t immune to outside desires. ~ Jenny Block, #NFDB |
| 707:To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB |
| 708:When our mind experiences pleasure, the five desires arise. The real hero quickly puts an end to these desires. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 709:A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB |
| 710:As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB |
| 711:He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB |
| 712:he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men’s desires were, or the absurdity of such greed. ~ Yiyun Li, #NFDB |
| 713:If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. ~ Democritus, #NFDB |
| 714:Insights change our desires; the new stories shift our goals, leading us to give up some ambitions and pursue others. ~ Gary Klein, #NFDB |
| 715:It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 716:It is the desire to have moral or immoral desires and the decision to act upon them that defines humanity at its best. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 717:It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB |
| 718:Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 719:Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB |
720:Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to
ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru,#NFDB |
| 721:Paying attention to your own desires and limites teaches you to trust yourself, to be strong on your own behalf. ~ Jaclyn Friedman, #NFDB |
| 722:Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB |
| 723:There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB |
| 724:The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 725:The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB |
| 726:We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever, ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB |
| 727:When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB |
| 728:You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB |
| 729:You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 730:And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don’t fit with what we call “maturity. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 731:God isn’t a concept or a theory. He is a person who has desires and purposes—and one of His desires is to be with you ~ Pete Wilson, #NFDB |
| 732:If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB |
| 733:In the deep of His mighty nature God thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires, and suffers as any other person may. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
| 734:It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB |
| 735:Like burning coals are our desires; they are full of suffering, full of torment and a yet heavier distressfulness. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB |
| 736:Matthew Henry comments, “The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of the world to give them any satisfaction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 737:Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB |
| 738:Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 739:Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB |
| 740:The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB |
| 741:There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 742:There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB |
| 743:Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation; ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 744:What do I really want in life: the success of God’s agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires? ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB |
| 745:Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge. ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, #NFDB |
| 746:You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB |
| 747:A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 748:Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB |
749:Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage. ~ Andr Maurois,#NFDB |
| 750:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB |
| 751:He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
752:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle,#NFDB |
| 753:If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. ~ Alison Bechdel, #NFDB |
| 754:Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB |
| 755:Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB |
| 756:The human beast desires power, and the thirst for power breeds chaos, however much we may try to pretend we control it. ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB |
| 757:The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB |
| 758:There are two ways to make people richer, reasoned Rousseau: to give them more money or to restrain their desires. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB |
| 759:There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB |
| 760:When you live for the will of God, you will not fulfill the desires of men. As a result, you will suffer in the flesh. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB |
| 761:A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB |
| 762:Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ~ Mortimer Adler, #NFDB |
| 763:Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB |
| 764:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 765:Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God ~ Elyse Fitzpatrick, #NFDB |
| 766:She fleetingly wished this handsome stranger could be the object of her desires, instead of his black-hearted companion. ~ Kat Martin, #NFDB |
| 767:The cure from all difficulties can come only when the egoistic concentration upon one's desires and conveniences ceases. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 768:Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 769:was “to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world. ~ Anthony Gottlieb, #NFDB |
| 770:You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you. ~ Francesca Lia Block, #NFDB |
| 771:Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires. ~ K W Jeter, #NFDB |
| 772:Being a leader is often difficult. It requires that you continually put the needs of others before your own desires. ~ Jonathan Auxier, #NFDB |
| 773:From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB |
| 774:If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB |
| 775:just a man helping humanity—infantile in their desires and bottomless in their greed—save themselves from themselves. ~ Tony Bertauski, #NFDB |
| 776:Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. ~ Alexander Graham Bell, #NFDB |
| 777:Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB |
| 778:No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 779:Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB |
| 780:There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 781:This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires. ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB |
| 782:Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ~ Norman Angell, #NFDB |
| 783:For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB |
| 784:I didn’t need her. Not that I often gave in to bodily cravings. Bad things happened when I gave in to my desires. Look ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB |
| 785:I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB |
| 786:I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it. ~ Andre Dubus, #NFDB |
| 787:Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 788:No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB |
| 789:The cure from all difficulties can come only when the egoistic concentration upon one's desires and conveniences ceases. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 790:The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 791:The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 792:Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 793:Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. ~ Pietro Aretino, #NFDB |
| 794:God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. ~ Saint John of the Cross, [T5], #NFDB |
| 795:If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB |
| 796:if you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 797:It’s hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB |
| 798:Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. ~ John Carroll, #NFDB |
| 799:Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 800:The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 801:He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 802:It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB |
| 803:Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB |
| 804:Now I’ve come to understand love and lust are commonly misunderstood. I let my own desires blind me from the big picture. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB |
| 805:One of the deepest feminine desires in intimacy is precisely not to have to always figure it out for her man and guide him. ~ David Deida, #NFDB |
| 806:The least indigent mortal is the one who desires the least. We have everything we wish when we wish only for what is sufficient. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 807:The material ordering of even the mundane tasks of our daily lives both reflects and shapes the desires of our hearts. ~ Daniel M Bell Jr, #NFDB |
| 808:As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB |
| 809:Desires are not eradicated by satisfaction. Trying to root them out that way is like pouring spirits to quench fire. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 810:Expectations are the illegitimate children – with desires as their step-siblings – of an ignorant mind and conditioned self. If ~ Om Swami, #NFDB |
| 811:Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions. ~ Paul Gauguin, #NFDB |
| 812:Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel. ~ Angelina Love, #NFDB |
| 813:There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB |
814:You saw the star first," she whispered. "You make the wish."
"I wish for your wish. For whatever your heart desires. ~ Jillian Hart,#NFDB |
| 815:Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires. ~ Gurcharan Das, #NFDB |
| 816:If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ~ Xunzi, #NFDB |
| 817:if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 818:I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 819:Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life”- ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 820:Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. ~ W G Sebald, #NFDB |
| 821:My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids. ~ Gary Carter, #NFDB |
| 822:My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness ~ Austin Osman Spare, #NFDB |
| 823:Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon, #NFDB |
| 824:scorching desires, twins Hope and Faith join the APF sorority and find themsleves falling for the same man, which pushes the sisters ~ Zane, #NFDB |
| 825:Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 826:Slay thy desires, O disciple, make powerless thy vices, before thou takest the first step of that solemn journey. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB |
| 827:The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the Gospel of John. ~ R A Torrey, #NFDB |
| 828:The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB |
| 829:brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB |
| 830:But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB |
| 831:Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires... ~ Maryse Cond, #NFDB |
| 832:Get a fix on the prospect/customer/client and on his or her desires; failing to do so will undermine all your other efforts. ~ Dan S Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 833:I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ~ Klaus Kinski, #NFDB |
| 834:If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB |
| 835:In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires. ~ Mark Miodownik, #NFDB |
| 836:I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 837:In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon, #NFDB |
| 838:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB |
| 839:it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB |
| 840:Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran, #NFDB |
| 841:serving really involves giving people what is good for them, not merely pursuing their approval and granting their desires. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB |
| 842:...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272] ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 843:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 844:Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. ~ Andrew Pyper, #NFDB |
| 845:Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB |
| 846:Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB |
| 847:We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB |
| 848:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 849:As long as one craves worldly enjoyment, one cannot renounce work. One has to perform work as long as one desires pleasure. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB |
| 850:As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan ~ Chuck Smith, #NFDB |
| 851:Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born? ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB |
| 852:First of all know this, that in the last days ridiculers will come with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 853:God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory. ~ Sally Clarkson, #NFDB |
| 854:Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB |
| 855:must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 856:Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 857:@SeanCassinova If dreams are the subconscious’ attempt to live desires, then I need to buy my subconscious a drink. And a house. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB |
| 858:Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 859:Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools. ~ Peter J Carroll, #NFDB |
| 860:The ability to satisfy desires instantly also breeds impatience, fuelled by a nagging sense that one could be doing so much else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 861:What we think of as our “gut instincts” are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires. ~ Lisa Unger, #NFDB |
| 862:Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires... ~ Peter Sagal, #NFDB |
| 863:Building our lives on something besides God not only hurts us if we don’t get the desires of our hearts, but also if we do. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
864:Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB |
| 865:Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB |
| 866:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 867:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 868:hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children, ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB |
| 869:It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB |
| 870:Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow. ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB |
| 871:Perfection comes by renunciation of desires and surrender to a higher Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Practical Concerns in Work, #NFDB |
| 872:Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 873:Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 874:Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 875:The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB |
| 876:A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB |
| 877:Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. ~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott, #NFDB |
| 878:Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own. ~ Bryan Chapell, #NFDB |
| 879:Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love. ~ Miroslav Volf, #NFDB |
| 880:Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB |
| 881:She added, “I’ve only followed the devices and desires of my own heart.” Verity patted her hand. “That’s what we love you for. ~ Winston Graham, #NFDB |
| 882:She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in. ~ Sonya Hartnett, #NFDB |
883:True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate. ~ Diana Peterfreund,#NFDB |
| 884:Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 885:A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 886:Do not sublimate your will to that of others unless it fits with your own purpose, for that makes you a slave to their desires. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB |
| 887:It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB |
| 888:Love wants more truth, because that will lead to more love, and that is what love desires, more of itself. Love loves Love. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB |
| 889:Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB |
| 890:Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB |
| 891:Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 892:Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 893:All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB |
| 894:conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 895:From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires – ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB |
| 896:He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB |
| 897:He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, #NFDB |
| 898:I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 899:Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 900:The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy. ~ Annalee Newitz, #NFDB |
| 901:The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory. ~ Smith Wigglesworth, #NFDB |
| 902:There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting-point for further desires ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 903:The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. ~ David Platt, #NFDB |
| 904:The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB |
| 905:To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. ~ George Henry Lewes, #NFDB |
| 906:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 907:A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB |
| 908:...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 909:Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. ~ Anthony of Padua, #NFDB |
| 910:Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear? ~ P D James, #NFDB |
| 911:God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 912:He can fuck you, cut you, hurt you, do whatever his little depraved heart desires. And you will let him do it because it pleases him ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB |
| 913:He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion. ~ Paul Russell, #NFDB |
| 914:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB |
| 915:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony, #NFDB |
| 916:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB |
| 917:if you are God’s child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it’s Christ! ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB |
| 918:I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB |
| 919:Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 920:Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB |
| 921:No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 922:Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 923:To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. ~ Benjamin Hoff, #NFDB |
| 924:Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB |
| 925:We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 926:When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB |
| 927:A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB |
| 928:A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB |
| 929:God desires that we become like Jesus in all of our ways, working with the Holy Spirit toward spiritual maturity and godly character. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 930:If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 931:May my desires be enlarged and my hopes emboldened, that I may honour Thee by my entire dependency and the greatness of my expectation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 932:Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB |
| 933:She wept over the vanity of her desires, which had so ardently flown to the blossoming flesh that now had already withered forever. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 934:There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 935:"When a wise person wants something from others, she first does what she desires from them, exemplifying rather than asking for it." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB |
| 936:Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 937:-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB |
| 938:Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. ~ Horace, #NFDB |
| 939:Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill. ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB |
| 940:All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB |
| 941:A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 942:Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events. ~ Michael Makai, #NFDB |
| 943:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 944:...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 945:I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express ~ Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, #NFDB |
| 946:It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB |
| 947:Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 948:The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB |
| 949:What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB |
| 950:Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 951:While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB |
| 952:Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires...never make her hold back.” - Felicity (The Pleasure Room) ~ D N Simmons, #NFDB |
| 953:A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? ~ Christa Wolf, #NFDB |
| 954:As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB |
| 955:But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 956:Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB |
| 957:Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB |
| 958:Everyone lusts. Everyone Fantasizes. When your lover respects you, you should feel free to explore your desires. No matter how extreme. ~ Jayne Rylon, #NFDB |
| 959:His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 960:I do not want to claim a safe and comfortable life for myself that is purchased at the cost of some other woman’s needs or desires. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB |
| 961:If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB |
| 962:It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB |
| 963:I went home and went to sleep. Outside of the occasional irritation, I had no nightmares, no passions, no desires, no great pains. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB |
| 964:"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens." ~ Alphonse de Lamartine(Méditations Poétiques, 1820), #NFDB |
| 965:Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB |
| 966:O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires! ~ George Herbert, #NFDB |
| 967:Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. Manual ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB |
| 968:So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 969:There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 970:The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 971:A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB |
| 972:A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 973:God leads into the dark night those whom He desires to purify from all these imperfections so that He may bring them farther onward. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB |
| 974:He has read everything, learned everything, practised everything, who has renounced his desires and lives without any straining of hope. ~ Hitopadesha, #NFDB |
| 975:He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 976:I now stand aside and watch God work. It interests me to see how quickly and easily He brings the desires of my heart to pass. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB |
| 977:Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. ~ James Anthony Froude, #NFDB |
| 978:Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 979:Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ~ Charles Bent, #NFDB |
| 980:That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: “When will this year be over! ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 981:The man who has conquered his unreined desires, offers no hold to sorrow; it glides over him like water over the leaves of the lotus. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB |
| 982:The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. ~ Sextus Empiricus, #NFDB |
983:Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB |
| 984:Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. ~ Hassan al Banna, #NFDB |
985:Angel dust blown a sunder,
Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,
Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs. ~ Truth Devour,#NFDB |
| 986:Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB |
| 987:Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 988:I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect. ~ Seungri, #NFDB |
| 989:Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don’t insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT ~ Albert Ellis, #NFDB |
| 990:No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. ~ Joseph Brant, #NFDB |
| 991:Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ~ Irving Babbitt, #NFDB |
| 992:Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth. ~ Matt Nix, #NFDB |
| 993:The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, #NFDB |
| 994:There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB |
| 995:These actions can lead to the martyr syndrome, in which people sacrifice their own desires to arouse feelings of pity or guilt in others. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB |
| 996:Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. ~ Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal, #NFDB |
| 997:To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB |
| 998:We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true. ~ Robert Collier, #NFDB |
| 999:And what is up to us? Our emotions Our judgments Our creativity Our attitude Our perspective Our desires Our decisions Our determination. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB |
| 1000:An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB |
| 1001:Growing up, she felt so unworthy of having her deepest desires satisfied, of being loved absolutely. She didn't feel that way anymore. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB |
| 1002:Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1003:Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. ~ Annie Besant, #NFDB |
| 1004:This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires. — ~ Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, #NFDB |
| 1005:To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB |
| 1006:we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB |
| 1007:When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 1008:Your childhood is the time of life when God desires to build the rooms of the temple in which He wants to live when you are an adult. ~ David A Seamands, #NFDB |
| 1009:Ever |