Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Desire creates its own object.
Desire creates the power.
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
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