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"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
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