The desire for sensual ordsprog

en The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.

en Obsessed with great anxiety until death, considering sense gratification as their highest aim, convinced that this (sense pleasure) is everything, / Bound by hundreds of ties of desire and enslaved by lust and anger; they strive to obtain wealth by unlawful means for the fulfillment of desires. They think: / This has been gained by me today, I shall fulfill this desire, this is mine and this wealth also shall be mine in the future; (16.13) That enemy has been slain by me, and I shall slay others also. I am the Lord. I am the enjoyer. I am successful, powerful, and happy; / I am rich and born in a noble family. I am the greatest. I shall perform sacrifice, I shall give charity, and I shall rejoice. Thus deluded by ignorance; / Bewildered by many fancies; entangled in the net of delusion; addicted to the enjoyment of sensual pleasures; they fall into a foul hell.

en The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart. Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness.

en 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
  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

en There's this general craving-and-desire system that's engaged, only in this case the desire isn't for money or a drug or power or freedom. The desire is for merging with another person.

en It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
  Albert Einstein

en The deluded ones, who restrain their organs of action but mentally dwell upon the sense enjoyment, are called hypocrites.

en Because we want to maintain access into the back country, ... For our enjoyment and everyone else's enjoyment.

en After going from his home to a homeless state, he should in his retirement look for enjoyment where there seemed to be no enjoyment.

en Within my mind, I meditate on God. For me, this is like the enjoyment of princely pleasures.

en The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
  Anthony Trollope

en You are entangled in association with your enemies, and the enjoyment of pleasures; your soul is burning up with them

en [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists immediate enjoyment, I'm not sure I agree, ... But an active understanding of the ways in which the musicians make sense together, as opposed to a more passive way of enjoying the music, does take time to acquire, and I hope Understanding Jazz will give its readers insights that will make the music come alive for them in all its depth and excitement, which is intellectual as well as sensual, reflective as well as driving and exciting.

en Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition
  Seneca

en Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat…
  Robert Collier


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