I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e. , an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires. "
All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
The fewer desires, the more peace.
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there. . . Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.
Humble Hearts have humble desires.
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.