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"Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek - why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
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Personal Development
"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
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Personal Development
"What I want is only a wish."
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Personal Development
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."
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"Desire grows by what it feeds on."
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Personal Development
"Go for the desire you dare to dream."
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Personal Development
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
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"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."
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"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
Information
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
Culture
"What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened."
Philosophy
"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
Nature
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth."
Spiritual
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