freedom from desire Quotes

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours.

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

Love does not want or fear anything.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla