Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates
well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable. . . you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.
When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.
Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
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.