Helping

If you really want to help someone, keep away from him. A desire to help disqualifies one from helping.

Restless eyes

If I’m trapped in the mind, I’m a rolling insufficiency. I want something.

When all my strivings cease

If I do not desire anything and I am not afraid of anything, then the mind is quiet. Not asleep or chewing its cud, but alert, watchful and ready. Like a top-of-class majordomo.

Small men

Desire isn’t wrong; it’s the smallness of our desires that exacts a toll.

One love

Dig one hole. Dig it deep.

The psalmist did not say, “Two things have I desired…”

“If you put sincere effort in one place, the gold in the stone will break for you.”