Kama Rupa - The Form of Desire (quotes)

I am told by some that the Buddha called desire the cause of suffering. I believe this an error, it is desire misunderstood.

A student once asked a Zen master what was needed to become enlightened. The master grabbed the students head, submerged it in a nearby pool and forcibly held it there for some time. When the student was released, the master said "You must want it as much as you wanted the next breath."


Ananta :
Form provokes desire. Desire evokes form. Let form pass away and abide in desire. Burn in space thusly and know the Divine ardor that creates.
 
Unknown Author:  
The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.

Somerset Maugham:  
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Raymond Hollingwell: 
Desire creates the power.

Bill Cosby:  
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Helen Keller:  
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

John Locke:  
The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:   
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Eric Hoffer: 
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Robert Collier:  
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Ella Fitzgerald: 
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Kahlil Gibran:  
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Helen Keller:  
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Claude M. Bristol: 
One essential to success is that your desire be an all obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Confucius: 
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

John Ruskin: 
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Raymond Holliwell: 
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.
These are the cause of action.

Christian Nevell Bovee:   
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Orison Swett Marden:  
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Sheila Graham: 
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Unknown Author:  
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.