"Desire has no history."
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"You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame."
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"[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness."
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"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."
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"The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free."
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"Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to.""
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"It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products."
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"It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers."
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"If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face."
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"Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action."
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"How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire"
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"his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera."
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"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."
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"The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires."
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"'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition."
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"A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not."
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"Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so."
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"Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill."
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"A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment."
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"When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa."
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