Quotes on Personal Desire

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.