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Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular. Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal. When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The mind is old; the desires are old. A physical body may be only five years old, but our desires can be millions of years old.

Paramahamsa Prajnanananda
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...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Pope John Paul II
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The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it.

Ram Dass
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Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo
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Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.

Sathya Sai Baba
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The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Ramana Maharshi
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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

Sathya Sai Baba
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It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

Teresa of Ávila
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