The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.
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Related When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in r... EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made ... GEORGE SANTAYANA We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's ... EMMANUELLE BEART Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep ove... CORMAC MCCARTHY When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is ... JUDITH VIORST Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the... TARUN BETALA True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu... FRANçOIS FéNELON Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it. ANGEL ORTIZ To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we... THOMAS S. MONSON If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob... TOM ROBBINS Coupled with our desire for the ideal, therefore, we must have an equally strong desire for the rema... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person... TOM ROBBINS In tests with rats, if there is no control, they go nuts. And the same thing is true of human beings... BRUCE LEICHTMAN Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a... GORE VIDAL Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then... OSHO [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con... MICHEL FOUCAULT If that is everybody's desire we will have to consider it, MAHATHIR MOHAMAD It's time we all came home. I mean there's no reason for us to be over there anymore. I think the mi... DEMETRIUS WILLIAMS The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history ... ROWAN WILLIAMS Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Iran is not exactly the type of nation that people just happen to end up in. People seem to have a d... ARI FLEISCHER I think that there is a desire on the part of the city and county to do something special there. FRANK GEHRY Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suff... NEIL JORDAN The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothi... ELIZABETH FISHEL The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothi... ELIZABETH FISHEL ....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other.... LAUREN OLIVER There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face ... ABRAHAM MASLOW I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ... FREDERICK W. FABER The television thing is not what makes it big for us. What makes it big for us, and I say this for e... ERNEST HUNTER Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ... URSULA K. LE GUIN You just gotta have the desire to do something to make it possible. Human beings have that capacity.... CAMILA CUEVAS we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taki... JAMES LONGSTREET There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY We do what we want cause we want to do it, and if we didn't we would lose the desire to have what we... MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to ... THOMAS MERTON We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to... THOMAS MERTON What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known. UNKNOWN My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there f... BALTASAR KORMAKUR Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or ... WILLIAM S. WILSON We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our sp... TARUN BETALA It is work that enables us to convert time into whatever we desire SUNDAY ADELAJA It may well be that we go in different phases in different places. There is no reason why we would h... HAZEL BLEARS UK Sport and the government have delivered and there can be no excuses now. There are not many natio... DAVE BRAILSFORD If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a shor... GAVIN NEWSOM We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th... GORE VIDAL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We needed this for morale. We have the talent, the desire and the ambition to win, we just hadn't. I... DIANE MILLER There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire JACQUELINE CAREY The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more su... STANLEY HAUERWAS Don’t have the power to make someone happy…?’ I criticized. ‘I have the power, the... DEEPAK RANJAN All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God,... WILLIAM LAW If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there ... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desi... DAVID GRANN It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w... WILLIAM BARCLAY The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is ... HENRY FORD I think we're an extremely hungry team, knowing we just lost and knowing that nothing is going to be... DANIEL GIBSON I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, ... CARLTON CUSE On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just m... JONATHAN HAIDT Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire... WALLACE D. WATTLES Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in ... BELL HOOKS All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o... GERONIMO Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire. WAYNE DYER [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we belie... ARISTOTLE We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. PUBLILIUS SYRUS We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, t... JAMES REILLY What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER This is grist for our mill. This is exactly what we don't want ? we have no desire to see this kind ... JOELLE SIMON One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that ... CRYSTAL WOODS Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Des... OSHO Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in t... ZIG ZIGLAR All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it ... LAWRENCE KRAUSER Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire betw... ADELISE M. CULLENS If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. WILLIAM SAROYAN If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. IDI AMIN If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. IDI AMIN DADA No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. W... SOURCE UNKNOWN
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