"Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important."

4 likes

Source: Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

About the author

Seth

Musician

Seth Godin is a renowned author and marketing expert known for his innovative ideas on marketing, leadership, and change.

All quotes by Seth →

Same author

More quotes by Seth

See all →
Seth Musician

"And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner."

Read quote
Seth Musician

"Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day"

Read quote
Seth Musician

"You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform."

Read quote