Desire

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

"In the beginning the body causes difficulties because it claims its rights without realizing that it is cutting off its own head by not surrendering."

"On the new earth, enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions. Wanting arises from the ego's delusion that you are a separate fragment that is disconnected from the power that lies behind all creation."

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

"If people were told: what makes carnal desire imperious in you is not its pure carnal element. It is the fact that you put into it the essential part of yourself—the need for Unity, the need for God—they wouldn’t believe it. To them it seems obvious that the quality of imperious need belongs to the carnal desire as such. In the same way it seems obvious to the miser that the quality of desirability belongs to gold as such, and not to its exchange value."

"If one is able to become deeply aware of the negative consequences of desires, one will not become involved in them. This is what is meant by renouncing desire."

"Do not desire for everything that you hear, for this suffices as gullibility (or foolishness)."

"Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti."

"The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment."

"Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno."

"As the hart panteth after the water-brooks."

"Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh— To join blest spirits in celestial lands!"

"The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow."

"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers."

"Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man."