"Our problem with desire is that we want too little."
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"Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously."
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"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."
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"Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present."
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"To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change."
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"I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears."
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"If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised.""
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"The moment you say, or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies begin instantly to orchestrate the manifestation of your desire."
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"Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all."
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"WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways"
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"Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them."
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"I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard."
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"I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display."
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"So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it."
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"From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire."
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"Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess."
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"I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call."
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"The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy."
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"Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire."
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"All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made."
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