Since much of what we desire lives on the outside (i.e. in the future), we make it the mission of our Box of Daily Experience to make contact with the outer world as much as possible. This touch represents the achievement of our goals and validates our aspirations. We hope that this brief contact will change the architecture of our box, but ultimat... See more
Lawrence Yeo • Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
Now the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness—it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness; and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Wanting is the ugliest thing you can do. It keeps your experience in a state of “not having.” It keeps good things at a distance.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.’