Desire's ultimate goal is unboundedness, the infinite nature, but because you are unaware you are giving it an unconscious expression for the longing that is wanting to become unbounded, you can't destroy your desire, you have to make your desire into a conscious processGoal Life Nature Spirituality
As soon as you cater to someone's physical desires and bad habits, you are not loving that soul anymore. You are just pleasing that person to avoid ill willLove Soul Habit
In all your seeking among different things, directly or indirectly, you are in reality seeking happiness through the fulfillment of your desiresHappiness Seeking
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.Philosophy Spirituality
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.Fear Men Human nature
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.Happiness Life Literature
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.Inspirational Success Analogy Mind
Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.Short Truth
Desire is not the source of all misery, unfulfilled desire is the source of all misery.Truth Witty Wisdom
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.Short
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.Short
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.Short
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.Short
As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.Short
My library is an archive of longings.Short
The problem with wanting... is that it makes us weak.Short Problems
Do not seek fulfillment through material mediums, or through desires born of such contact.Short
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife... I guess I am a fantasy.Short
All tyranny begins with the desire to coerce others for the greater good.Short
Desire is what holds you in mortal bondageShort
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Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.Life
Modern life is becoming very unsatisfactory. It does not give you happiness. There are too many things, too many desires. More nice cars and dresses and entertainments—and more worriesLife
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.Life
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire.Life World People Humans
Whatever the effort human being is making, whether he goes to the temple, goes to the bar, wants to go to heaven, takes the drugs; the whole effort is to make life something more than what it is now, something will happen only when your perception is enhanced, not otherwiseLife Perception Effort Humans
I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.Life
If instead of working up your desires, you enhance your capabilities, you will walk through this life effortlessly, gracefully, doing very well.Life
You must learn to work without desire, and to live in this world without attachment.Life Work World
We have to return again and again to the school of life until all lessons have been learned. So long as we leave earth at death with desires unfulfilled we have to come back again in order to fulfill those desires.Life Earth
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.Life Money Choice
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The expectations that most people are creating are such that there is no human being on the planet who could ever fulfill those expectations.Expectation People
He is truly a yogi who, on this earth and up to the very time of death, is able to master every impulse of desire and wrath. He is a happy manDeath Bhagavad gita
Surrendering to the demands of the senses does not satisfy them, but rather creates insatiable desires for further sense experiences.Wisdom Spirituality Pleasure
Fulfilled desire is "pleasure" and contradicted desire is "pain" or "sorrow". They are inseparableTruth Wisdom Pain Pleasure
What you are seeing now will be gone one day. Change is good if you don't let it hurt you. When it does hurt, the rebellion you feel is meant to show you that you should not have any desires.Change Hurt
The things you used to own, now they own you.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.Heart Life Short
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.Inspirational Work
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.Love Short
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.Loneliness Literature
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.Happiness Perspective
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.Freedom Poetry Comfort
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.Love Man Romance
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.Freedom
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.Hope Future
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Hope
Accept the children the way we accept trees-with gratitude, because they are a blessing-but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.Change Love Children Acceptance
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.Truth
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.Happiness Seeking Secret
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.Kindness Action
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.Growth
Your desires are not even about you, your desires are a reaction to the social situations you are living in. If you are living in a city & your neighbor has a big car, your desire is to have 2 cars like that, if you are living in a village & your neighbor has a big buffalo, you want 2 big buffaloesSociety
When a man completely relinquishes all desires of the mind and is entirely contented in the self, by the self, he is then considered to be settled in wisdomWisdom Mind Yoga Bhagavad gita
Brooding on sense objects causes attachment to them. Attachment creates craving; craving leads to angerAnger Bhagavad gita
Just as a fire is covered by smoke, a mirror is masked by dust, and an embryo is concealed by the womb; similarly, one's knowledge gets covered by desirePhilosophy Knowledge Bhagavad gita
Completely renouncing all desires arising from material thoughts, one should restrain the senses with the mind from all sidesMind Thought Bhagavad gita
Whatever has its origin in desire is a disturbing element, for desires are like stones pelted into the calm lake of consciousness.Mind Consciousness
I enjoy everything, but I have no desire for anything, so there is never any pain or disappointment from unfulfillment. Whatever I do, wherever I go, I enjoy myself.Freedom Pain
For your own happiness, you must strive to live free of worldly desires. If there is anything you can't do without, you still have a terrible lesson to learn.Happiness Life
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.Love Women Passion Romance
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.World
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.Men
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.Humor
Those who restrain desire do so because their's is weak enough to be restrained.Humor Self control
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.Fear Knowledge
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except our own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?Evil Choice Limitation
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.God
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.Heart Short Man
If you make your process of desiring into a conscious process, then desire is no more a problem, desire is a wonderful vehicle that will take you placesProblems Spirituality Consciousness
Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.Education
Get what you want. Don't want what you can't.
The senses, mind, and intellect are said to be desire's formidable stronghold; Through them, desire clouds one's knowledge and deludes the embodied soul.Soul Mind
Do not be enslaved by the senses. They are not meant to bind you with material desires, but to serve you with perceptions of good, which reflect God.God
Desires are formed according to one's environment; they are created by, and therefore limited by, your sense perceptionsPerception Limitation
Human desires are not perfect, hence their fulfillment does not lead to perfect happiness.Happiness
Material objects and the satisfaction of material desires are temporal; therefore all happiness deriving from them is temporal.Happiness
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slaveryPower Suffering
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.Love
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.Love Short
You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.Love Passion Men Romance
Kiss me again... Kiss me until I am sick of it.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.Change
Unleash your desire; limit it not to the limited. In the boundlessness of the desire is your ultimate natureNature Limitation
Nobody gets anywhere just because he desires it; people get somewhere because they acquire the necessary capabilitySuccess People
We study science to learn how to get what we want. We study philosophy to know what to want in the first place.Philosophy Science
The strong and turbulent senses can forcibly seize the mind even of a person with a high degree of enlightenment and self-control.Mind Self control Bhagavad gita
Karma means material action, that which is instigated by egoistic desire. It sets into motion the law of cause and effect. The action produces a result that binds itself to the doer until the cause is compensated by the appropriate effectAction
Unfulfilled desires are the root cause of reincarnation.
Every unfulfilled active desire, unless roasted by wisdom, plants a new desire-seed in the mind.Wisdom
One who is at peace in God is not tortured by unfulfilled earthly desires.God
Your fulfillment lies not in obtaining the objects of your desire, but in the unfoldment of your soul qualities in making the effort to succeed in worthwhile endeavors.Soul Effort
Material desires take away the desire for the InfiniteSpirituality
The world ends for us when we are free from desiresFreedom World
As often as we have come on earth we have developed new imperfections and new desires. So we come back here again and again until we fulfill all desires
Errors in choosing matrimonial candidates, divorces, and multiple marriages are frantic misguided efforts arising from the soul's pure desire to find one's real-life companion.Marriage Soul Effort
God is everlasting, ever-new Joy, and when you have found Him, you need no longer pursue the eternally elusive will-o'-the-wisp "something else" that has always eluded you in all fulfilled desiresGod Joy
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire —for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness —that is the way to live in this world.God Consciousness
To reach God you must avoid crowds, too many distractions, too many movies, too many fruitless engagements, too many desires, too much waste of timeGod Time Advice Spirituality
The sum total of past actions and unfulfilled desires determines what kind of body you will have, and sets the general pattern of your new incarnationAction Body
The yogi who roasts in a fire of wisdom all seeds of new desires becomes free from the thralldom of reincarnationWisdom
Desires for worldly joys create the magnetic attraction that draws man back to earth, life after life. Reincarnation is no longer necessary for those who have fulfilled their desires in GodGod
Through the senses, we learn to like things that are pleasing to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. The desire for a particular sensation becomes a habit
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free willPain
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions
I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I'm her knight in shinning armor.
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.Passion Romance
The thoughts that predominate at the time of death can bring you either salvation — if your supreme desire is for God — or rebirth. If you are filled with worldly desires, those thoughts impinge themselves on the subtle body and bring the soul back into another earthly incarnationDeath God Thought
Desire is a condition the ego imposes on itself and is therefore detrimental to man's evenmindedness.
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
Desire is produced by indiscriminate contact with the objects of the senses. Expressing as the likes and dislikes of the ego, desire creeps into the consciousness of one who is not watchful enough in governing the reaction of his feelings to his various experiences in the world
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires
That person realizes peace who, relinquishing all desires, exists without craving and is unidentified with the mortal ego and its sense of "mine-ness." 
Desire's ultimate goal is unboundedness, the infinite nature, but because you are unaware you are giving it an unconscious expression for the longing that is wanting to become unbounded, you can't destroy your desire, you have to make your desire into a conscious process 
Those who are very interested in leaving their footprints on the planet, they shall never fly. 
As soon as you cater to someone's physical desires and bad habits, you are not loving that soul anymore. You are just pleasing that person to avoid ill will 
In all your seeking among different things, directly or indirectly, you are in reality seeking happiness through the fulfillment of your desires 
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. 
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. 
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. 
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. 
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. 
Desire is not the source of all misery, unfulfilled desire is the source of all misery. 
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. 
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. 
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. 
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. 
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. 
Tweak your competence, not your desire 
As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. 
My library is an archive of longings. 
To understand the limitation of things, desire them. 
Do not seek fulfillment through material mediums, or through desires born of such contact. 
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife... I guess I am a fantasy. 
All tyranny begins with the desire to coerce others for the greater good. 
Desire is what holds you in mortal bondage 
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. 
Modern life is becoming very unsatisfactory. It does not give you happiness. There are too many things, too many desires. More nice cars and dresses and entertainments—and more worries 
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. 
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. 
Whatever the effort human being is making, whether he goes to the temple, goes to the bar, wants to go to heaven, takes the drugs; the whole effort is to make life something more than what it is now, something will happen only when your perception is enhanced, not otherwise 
Just desire the highest in life. Direct all your passion towards that. 
I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains. 
If instead of working up your desires, you enhance your capabilities, you will walk through this life effortlessly, gracefully, doing very well. 
We have to return again and again to the school of life until all lessons have been learned. So long as we leave earth at death with desires unfulfilled we have to come back again in order to fulfill those desires. 
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. 
The expectations that most people are creating are such that there is no human being on the planet who could ever fulfill those expectations.
He is full with contentment who absorbs all desires within, as the brimful ocean remains unmoved by waters entering into it
He is truly a yogi who, on this earth and up to the very time of death, is able to master every impulse of desire and wrath. He is a happy man
Surrendering to the demands of the senses does not satisfy them, but rather creates insatiable desires for further sense experiences.
Fulfilled desire is "pleasure" and contradicted desire is "pain" or "sorrow". They are inseparable
Ever fed, never satisfied, never fed, ever satisfied
What you are seeing now will be gone one day. Change is good if you don't let it hurt you. When it does hurt, the rebellion you feel is meant to show you that you should not have any desires.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
The things you used to own, now they own you.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Accept the children the way we accept trees-with gratitude, because they are a blessing-but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
Your desires are not even about you, your desires are a reaction to the social situations you are living in. If you are living in a city & your neighbor has a big car, your desire is to have 2 cars like that, if you are living in a village & your neighbor has a big buffalo, you want 2 big buffaloes
When a man completely relinquishes all desires of the mind and is entirely contented in the self, by the self, he is then considered to be settled in wisdom
Brooding on sense objects causes attachment to them. Attachment creates craving; craving leads to anger
Just as a fire is covered by smoke, a mirror is masked by dust, and an embryo is concealed by the womb; similarly, one's knowledge gets covered by desire
Renunciants who are desireless and wrathless, mind-controlled, and Self-realized, are completely free both in this world and in the beyond.
Completely renouncing all desires arising from material thoughts, one should restrain the senses with the mind from all sides
Whatever has its origin in desire is a disturbing element, for desires are like stones pelted into the calm lake of consciousness.
I enjoy everything, but I have no desire for anything, so there is never any pain or disappointment from unfulfillment. Whatever I do, wherever I go, I enjoy myself.
For your own happiness, you must strive to live free of worldly desires. If there is anything you can't do without, you still have a terrible lesson to learn.
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Once you want something, everything changes.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Those who restrain desire do so because their's is weak enough to be restrained.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except our own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
If you make your process of desiring into a conscious process, then desire is no more a problem, desire is a wonderful vehicle that will take you places
With my desire to improve everything, I destroy the moment.
Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.
Get what you want. Don't want what you can't.
The senses, mind, and intellect are said to be desire's formidable stronghold; Through them, desire clouds one's knowledge and deludes the embodied soul.
Do not be enslaved by the senses. They are not meant to bind you with material desires, but to serve you with perceptions of good, which reflect God.
Desires are formed according to one's environment; they are created by, and therefore limited by, your sense perceptions
Human desires are not perfect, hence their fulfillment does not lead to perfect happiness.
Material objects and the satisfaction of material desires are temporal; therefore all happiness deriving from them is temporal.
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.
Kiss me again... Kiss me until I am sick of it.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Unleash your desire; limit it not to the limited. In the boundlessness of the desire is your ultimate nature
Nobody gets anywhere just because he desires it; people get somewhere because they acquire the necessary capability
We study science to learn how to get what we want. We study philosophy to know what to want in the first place.
The strong and turbulent senses can forcibly seize the mind even of a person with a high degree of enlightenment and self-control.
Karma means material action, that which is instigated by egoistic desire. It sets into motion the law of cause and effect. The action produces a result that binds itself to the doer until the cause is compensated by the appropriate effect
Unfulfilled desires are the root cause of reincarnation.
Every unfulfilled active desire, unless roasted by wisdom, plants a new desire-seed in the mind.
One who is at peace in God is not tortured by unfulfilled earthly desires.
Your fulfillment lies not in obtaining the objects of your desire, but in the unfoldment of your soul qualities in making the effort to succeed in worthwhile endeavors.
Material desires take away the desire for the Infinite
As often as we have come on earth we have developed new imperfections and new desires. So we come back here again and again until we fulfill all desires
Errors in choosing matrimonial candidates, divorces, and multiple marriages are frantic misguided efforts arising from the soul's pure desire to find one's real-life companion.
God is everlasting, ever-new Joy, and when you have found Him, you need no longer pursue the eternally elusive will-o'-the-wisp "something else" that has always eluded you in all fulfilled desires
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire —for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness —that is the way to live in this world.
To reach God you must avoid crowds, too many distractions, too many movies, too many fruitless engagements, too many desires, too much waste of time
The sum total of past actions and unfulfilled desires determines what kind of body you will have, and sets the general pattern of your new incarnation
The yogi who roasts in a fire of wisdom all seeds of new desires becomes free from the thralldom of reincarnation
Desires for worldly joys create the magnetic attraction that draws man back to earth, life after life. Reincarnation is no longer necessary for those who have fulfilled their desires in God
Through the senses, we learn to like things that are pleasing to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. The desire for a particular sensation becomes a habit
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions
I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I'm her knight in shinning armor.
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.
The thoughts that predominate at the time of death can bring you either salvation — if your supreme desire is for God — or rebirth. If you are filled with worldly desires, those thoughts impinge themselves on the subtle body and bring the soul back into another earthly incarnation
Desire is a condition the ego imposes on itself and is therefore detrimental to man's evenmindedness.
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
Desire is produced by indiscriminate contact with the objects of the senses. Expressing as the likes and dislikes of the ego, desire creeps into the consciousness of one who is not watchful enough in governing the reaction of his feelings to his various experiences in the world
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires