A Quote by Gautama Buddha
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
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From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.
Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.
It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
