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"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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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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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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