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“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”

“Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm of pure spirit; sometimes we end up in the desire realms. Sometimes we go down to the lower astral to teach, you don't really teach there, you just sort of are, because everybody is confused.”

Ends Sometimes Spirit Desire Teach Teacher Higher Pure Realms Confused Enlightened Assignments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.”

Dream Desire Stars Higher Ambition Worship Dignity Madness Dust Hills Goddess Soar Leaving Me Mistress Weeping My Ambition Azure

Book:Imogen: And Other Poems

Source: Imogen: And Other Poems

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?”

Desire Democracy Alive Higher Hatred Excellence

Book:The Last of the Wine

Source: The Last of the Wine

“... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.”

War Desire Dies Fighting Passion Peace Behinds Movement Ready Higher Militant Pacifist

Book:Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

Source: Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.”

War Desire Passion Peace Behinds Movement Higher

Book:Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

Source: Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”

Moments Might Joy Desire Levels Break Fire Higher Scene Draws Crowds Disaster Flames Intensity Unusual Break Through Higher Level Morbidity

Author:Maya Deren

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”

Knows Feels Desire Ignorance Higher Curiosity Ignorant Pursue Burning Vow Solemn

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.”

Desire Grows Sea Sky Higher Comfort

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”