Best desire & aversion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.”

Way Spiritual Joy Desire Infinite Attachment Aversion Elimination

“You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.”

Thinking Way Want Humans Happens Able Desire Human Beings Yoga Intention Work Out Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.”

Men Desire Hate Evil Objects Appetite Aversion

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.”

Two Soul Body Might Form Desire Pleasure Thirds Affection Dues Seats Entity Distress Aversion Employing Fear And Courage

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.”

Giving Light Desire Buddhism Circumstances Planes Rise Above Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.”

Desire Deals Path Meditation Offers Frustration Concentration Aversion Operating Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.”

Light Desire Gains Profound Concentration Cycles Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.”

Desire Friendship Firm Aversion Bonds Of Friendship

Author:Sallust

“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

Body Action Desire Opinion Property Pursuit Command Reputation One Word Aversion

Book:The Handbook of Epictetus

Source: The Handbook of Epictetus

“Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.”

Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition

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