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“I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.”

Has Beens Light Desire Names Land Mines Birth Ears Praise Salvation Glorious Bless Pardon Saviour Tidings

Author:Robert Treat Paine

“This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.”

World Lasts Moving Desire This World Birth Wheels

Book:The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”

Ifs Pain Moving Desire Turns Evil Causes Pleasure Results Existence Hell Saws Birth Creatures Individuality Deeds Karma Disgusting Thirst Crave Living Creatures Obnoxious

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.”

Joy Desire Given Possibility Divine Birth Wings Speed Optimistic Infinity Absurdity Resourceful

Book:The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.”

Way Should Desire Suffering Causes Birth Roots Obstacles Liberation One Word Birth And Death

Author:Sarada Devi