"Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire"
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"A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives."
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"Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries."
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"The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave."
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"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."
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"Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire."
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"The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires."
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"In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality."
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"...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion."
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"Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses."
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"The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle."
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"The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand."
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"How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred."
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"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."
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"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."
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"Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details."
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"Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do."
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"Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation."
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"Any desire to grow is following the flow of love"
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"O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away."
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