"Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects."
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"If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success."
"All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away."
"True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already."
"Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want."
"Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."
"...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight."
"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
"Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat."
"There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live."
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
"Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy."
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
"The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out."
"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
"Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn."
"How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers"
"Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues."
"Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate."