Accumulation is the way of desire; to accumulate is to continue
All desire is contradiction, for every centre of desire is opposed to another desire
Desire breeds deception, illusion, contradiction, and the visions of hope
Desire can and does divide itself into pleasure and pain, wisdom and ignorance…
Desire does not bring contradictions. Desire is contradiction
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
Desire is beginning of identification, the 'mine' and the 'not-mine'
Desire is effort, the action of will
Desire is soon spent and in its spending is sorrow
Desire is stimulated by association and remembrance; memory is part of desire
Desire is swift, cunning and deep
Desire is thought; desire forges the chain of memory
Desire seeks fulfillment, and the shadow of fulfillment is frustration
Only love can tame desire, and love is not of the mind
The understanding of desire is of far greater significance than discipline, which is mere conformity to a pattern
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
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
Will is desire, and it can tyrannically dominate all other desire; but what is thus conquered has to be conquered again and again




