“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
“My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain. (…) for the sake of pleasure you are committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death.”
Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.82.
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“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru
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Source: "I am That." P.8
“These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.”
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Hap http://www.poetry-online.org/hardy_hap.htm" (1866), lines 13-14, from Wessex Poems (1898)
