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“You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”

Desire Dignity Essence

Book:The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.”

Men Humans Two War Form Desire Risk Movement Built Essence Towns Longing Hunger East Urges Stability Opposing Permanence Instability

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.”

Ifs Needs Moments Life Is Desire Given Planets Essence Universal Moments In Time

Author:Gavin Newsom

“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

Art Real Desire Actors Acting Emotion Please Essence Dramatic Faculty Feminine Defects Facility Provinces Assimilation Artifice

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?”

Want Giving Reason Desire Purpose Humanity Circumstances Terrible Cost Demand Commitment Essence Excuse What You Want Theme Purpose Of Life Denied Apology Quests

Author:Stuart Wilde

“He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification (takyeef), His action without effort (takleef).”

Action Desire Effort Conflict Essence Meetings Guides Contact Pointing Qualifications

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj