desire


Random quote of the day:

 

“In Buddhism, one is usually taught that desire is the root of suffering….When one delves more deeply, it actually turns out that the Sanskrit word tanha should be translated as “thirst” rather than “desire” and that the root of suffering is not so much that we crave certain things as that we so strongly identify with and obsess over these cravings.”

—Noelle Oxenhandler, The Wishing Year

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Random quote of the day:

 

“We often use the words wish and desire as though they were one and the same, but I want to say that a wish is a desire with something added. For while a desire can remain quite passive, latent, held within the realm of possibility, a wish…takes aim.  It tries to cross the threshold between the possible and the actual. It’s a desire with ambition, a desire poised for action.”

—Noelle Oxenhandler, The Wishing Year

 

 

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Random quote of the day:

 

“We’re never truly separate from what we wish for.”

—Kythe Heller, Immolation

 

 


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Random quote of the day:

 

“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

—William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

 


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