Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love to you until you are too exhausted to do so much as stand without support. Until you call out my name in your dreams and reach for me in your sleep. Until you can think of no one and nothing beyond the touch of my hand, the caress of my lips.

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

Psychics exploit the human beings natural desire that longs for something higher. … The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with the opposite sex…psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking. When I don't wanna drink, I don't wanna drink. I haven't had a desire to drink for four months. When I think of the taste of it, no desire. The trouble is the wines I love I can barely afford, which is a great method to cut down on your drinking: Drink only what you can't afford.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study the market and see how it can go. I mean to become an artist... You never get the Nobel-price for example. You can normally never become a millionaire. Very few become millionaires, so the circumstances are very bad if one becomes an artist. And that should be taken into consideration.

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become a desire. So fight against that(desire), for if you don't, it will become a determination and a passion. And if you don't repel that, it will become an action. And if you don't replace it with its opposite, it will become a constant habit. So at that point, it will be difficult for you to change it.

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.