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Accumulation is the way of desire; to accumulate is to continue

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All desire is contradiction, for every centre of desire is opposed to another desire

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Desire breeds deception, illusion, contradiction, and the visions of hope

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Desire can and does divide itself into pleasure and pain, wisdom and ignorance…

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Desire does not bring contradictions. Desire is contradiction

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Desire is as pliable and as swift as the mind; it will adjust itself to anything, mould itself to any circumstances, build walls that will keep out light

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Desire is beginning of identification, the 'mine' and the 'not-mine'

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Desire is effort, the action of will

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Desire is soon spent and in its spending is sorrow

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Desire is stimulated by association and remembrance; memory is part of desire

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Desire is swift, cunning and deep

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Desire is thought; desire forges the chain of memory

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Desire seeks fulfillment, and the shadow of fulfillment is frustration

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Only love can tame desire, and love is not of the mind

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The understanding of desire is of far greater significance than discipline, which is mere conformity to a pattern

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To sublimate desire is an act of will; but will is essentially the concentration of desire, and when one form of desire dominates another, you are back again in your old pattern of struggle

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To understand desire is to be choicelessly aware of its movements. If you destroy desire, you destroy sensitivity, as well as the intensity that is essential for the understanding of truth

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Will is desire, and it can tyrannically dominate all other desire; but what is thus conquered has to be conquered again and again

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