“Appetite comes with eating.” DesireFoodEatingCookingCulinaryAppetite Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.” IfsStillsHandsDesireJesusHeavenLoversEatingCrossesPraiseAdversityDrinkingProfitKingdomsTemptationBlessConsolationConvenienceComradeTribulationKingdom Of HeavenAbstinenceJesus LoveEating And Drinking Author:Thomas a Kempis
“The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.” MenKindSoulBodyActionDesireCoursesEvilFoundCausesSinClassDiseaseEatingAnd LoveThirdsDrinkingVicesComplainingAfflictionIndulgenceBad Food Author:Maimonides
“Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.” ThinkingLyingDesireFireEatingConsciousSittingDrinkingPassingPassingsSavingIntrospectionModeratesInvolvementEndeavourLying DownEating And Drinking Author:Dogen
“Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.” ThinkingMindDreamDesireNightSufferingUniverseBreakWalkingEatingIntenseZeroFlashDay And NightHamIncessantly Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way” WaySaidPainDesireBeliefLeftAnimalShareLove YouCryEatingRiversDinnerDramaticFancyParksRestaurantsShellsFifteenImpressedAvenuesManhattanPhoenixCrabsLove You So MuchI Love You So Much Author:Martha Plimpton
“I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.” PeopleHardWholeFactsKidsDesireDifficultPerfectPiecesJudgingEatingBonesFatsMeatEggsChocolateVeganBitesHoneyMilkCheeseDifficult TimesHere And ThereDairyEating Meat Author:Tobey Maguire
“When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.” SchoolDesireEnergyParentCollegeEatingFortuneEducationalPotEmperorAbolishPrivate SchoolEating OutBake Sale Author:Ann Patchett
“A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.” ThinkingMenWorldWayBelieveMayDoeBodyDesireDiesWishEnjoyRaceProveEatingHungerBreadSubstanceParadiseStarvationIndication Book:Weight of Glory Source: Weight of Glory
“Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.” HumansPersonsStillsWould BeDesireCompanyShareSceneEatingResponseRememberedMealsSpokesPacksUnlikelyBoltsDepartedGrowlingWolf Packs Author:Jane Lindskold
“Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.” PeopleWayNeedsWellsHas BeensDesireAnimalGraceHonorEatingRelationCookingPlantSpeciesCelebrateCooksFungi Author:Michael Pollan
“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.” LongDesireLonelinessParticularLoversEatingMadnessPassionateAbstractionPassionate LoveDesire Love Book:The Return of the Native Source: The Return of the Native