Quotes About Desire

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

In love the other is important; in lust you are important

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).