“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.”

“ Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.”

“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”

“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

“For without you, I swear, the townHas become like a prison to me.Distraction and the mountainAnd the desert, all I desire.”