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Tom Robbins says perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity…

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and 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 … Continue reading

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Ryan Adams sings you just can’t show me…

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Andrew Matthews says if you don’t have it, you can’t give it…

“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can … Continue reading

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Alexandra Katehakis says this is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life…

“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and … Continue reading

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Kahlil Gibran says desire is half of life…

“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.” – Kahlil Gibran

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Meg Rosoff says still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire…

“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to … Continue reading

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Tom Robbins says desire suggests that there is something we do not have…

“The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying … Continue reading

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