'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.
If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
Don't become something just because someone else wants you to or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the s-t out of you.
You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want.
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
Follow what you love!... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
I feel like whenever you dress for someone else, you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
