"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires."
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"When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help."
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"[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)"
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"No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it."
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"Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."
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"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."
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"Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world."
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"No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret."
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"He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment."
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"Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness ."
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"Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow."
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"Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us."
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"Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue."
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"Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations."
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"The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday."
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"Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means."
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"Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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