To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.
Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
