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Quotes About Desire

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
~ Unknown
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
~ Idries Shah
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
~ Idries Shah
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.
~ Idries Shah
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
~ Idries Shah
Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.
~ Idries Shah
A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.
~ Idries Shah
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
~ Idries Shah
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
~ Idries Shah
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
~ Idries Shah
Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.
~ Idries Shah
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
~ Idries Shah
Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. "The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.
~ Idries Shah
Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta Deseo No desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.
~ Idries Shah
Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.
~ Idries Shah
The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.
~ Idries Shah
A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.
~ Idries Shah
If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.
~ Idries Shah
If you want to nourish your stupidity, try a little avarice.
~ Idries Shah
El grado de necesidad determina el desarrollo de órganos en el hombre… por lo tanto incrementa tu necesidad.
~ Idries Shah
En el hombre inalterado, el deseo básico de misticismo nunca es lo bastante claro como para ser reconocido por lo que es.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Comunidad: irracionales unidos por la esperanza de lo imposible.
~ Idries Shah