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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Desire
When there is no desire, all things are at peace. ~Lao Tzu
What is the root of pain? Ignorance of yourself. What is the root of desire?
The urge to find yourself. All creation toils for its self and will not rest until it
returns to it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a
state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme
abundance, fullness. ~Jean Klein
Desire fulfilled only for a moment gives you a relief, and that relief has also
to be understood. In the moment of a fulfilled desire there is relief. There is
relief because in that small moment you are desireless. Desirelessness is joy.
When one desire is fulfilled and before the mind projects another desire,
between the two there is a small interval when there is no desire. That
moment is of meditation.~Osho
Desire gives you suffering. Whenever any desire arises, you want to go near
it, you want to achieve it and you do, then you are happy. You may think that
the object made you happy, but really it is the absence of desire, that moment
of emptiness, that makes you happy. ~Papaji
The moment all your outer seeking stops, the moment that you have
understood the futility of desire, the futility of ambition. In that state of non-
ambitiousness, desirelessness, truth is revealed. ~Osho
When the mind is no longer seeking, no longer breeding conflict through its
wants and cavings, when it is silent with understanding, only then can the
immeasurable come into being. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Liberation cannot be desired because desire is bondage. When you are
desireless, you are liberated. ~Osho
When the veil which does not exist is lifted,
then you will have Bliss and Love.
The veil never is, it is only your desire
which hides your true nature.
~Papaji
In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your only
fulfillment, and in your tremendous helplessness suddenly the whole
existence starts helping you. ~Osho
The very desire to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not? ~Jiddu
Krishnamurti
Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you
free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
~Simone Weil
The desire to know your own Soul will end all other desires. ~Rumi
Embrace the light and let it guide you beyond the winds of desire. ~Rumi
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why
attached to it; it blooms because it blooms, has no thought of itself, or desire
to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who
wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants
nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding. ~Andre
Compte-Sponville
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate
wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts. ~Alan Cohen
Contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation
and enjoyment for what is, right now. Desires, in contrast, can never be
satisfied. Once we get what we crave, we soon find it less satisfying than we
expected, so we strive for something else. The only escape from this perpetual
wheel of want is to discover the contentment and perfection we already have.
~Gillian Stokes
Naked, I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. ~Horace
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see
how it is. ~Ram Dass
To get rid of your passions is not Nirvana; to look upon them as no matter of
yours, that is nirvana. ~unknown
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. ~Seneca
Desires are just waves in the mind. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel
no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire
means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. ~Sri Nisargadatta
Ultimately, one loves one’s desires and not that which is desired. ~Friedrich
Nietzche
What we really desire is not the object, because if it were, its possession
would eliminate all desire. What is desired is bliss, which exists at all times in
myself and everything. The realisation of this bliss was lost to me when I
became a separate ego, thereby losing sight of my essential identity with it.
~Jean Klein
People say “I want peace.” If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire},
you are left with peace. ~Satya Sai Baba
Desire is an insatiable beast. It never gets enough. ~Sivananda Radha
Desire is adopted as a pain killer. Every desire is an attempt to evade the
unknown. ~unknown
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ~Eleonora Duse
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When
you are very happy then there is contentment. “Contentment” means “no
want.” ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Want” is always hanging on to the “I.” When the “I” itself is dissolving,
“want” also dissolves, disappears. ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We must force this insatiable desire within us, which is always oriented
towards outward things and has its domain in an imaginary future, to close in
on itself and bring its main thrust round to the present. ~Simone Weil
So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
~Lao Tzu
The state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience. Nothing of
value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants. For nothing
the mind can visualize and want is of much value. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
One who is attached to the world
thinks renouncing it will relieve his misery.
One who is attached to nothing is free
and does not feel miserable
even in the world.
~Ashtavakra Gita