Desire Quotes

“D. T. Suzuki, the eminent scholar of Zen Buddhism, one day made this sarcastic comment on the Christian tradition to his friends, American mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychoanalyst Carl Jung: “Nature against Man, Man against Nature; God against Man, Man against God; God against Nature, Nature against God; very funny religion!”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“it is no longer a question of cutting off the senses, desires, and passions; on the contrary, it is a question of mounting these high-spirited, steedlike messengers in full consciousness so that they may carry us rapidly to a continuous presence to the world.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Everything that we abandon in the false dream of conforming to a system is precisely what will subsequently come along and block our path.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“All that is proscribed, all that is upheld, the yogas based on such limbs as the control of breath or other things, all that is false.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“The quest for this simple bliss, free from dogmas and religious beliefs, from submission to a priesthood, and from the hope of being sanctified by others, is the object of each person’s search.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“In an era where the word communication reigns, where an unlimited mass of information can be accessed within a few seconds, we complain about having lost contact with our body and with other human beings. We suffer from extreme solitude, we suffer from no longer touching each other, we suffer from the “virtualization” of our feelings, the expression of our emotions, and our sensorality.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Once we penetrate deeply into the human fabric, comparisons with art become vital, because the tantrika’s search is precisely to transform life into a work of art—that is to say, into the discovery of the profound relationship of individual humanity to spatiality.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Apprenticeship exists; it goes hand in hand with the development of a complete yoga of presence, which it is impossible to attain as long as you get fixed on objectives.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Holding back, performance, technique are profoundly contradictory to total pleasure.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“The words control, technique, and performance arise from a certain illusion, that of believing that a woman is longing for “a good lay.” She is longing for much more than that; she is longing for a deep connection with the totality of her being.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Acting the moralist serves nothing. Each case is unique.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“very few people truly want this intensity, because it leads to total inner nakedness. Most people are looking for something more bland and neutral, more comforting.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“We are not here to waste time with the expression of rigid forms. It is direct, simple, and without protocol. If fundamentally there is no difference, this must be apparent in actuality.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“The classic trilogy—sex, power, money—requires a great deal of determination, a great deal of energy from its adepts. You have to be ready to suffer until the time comes when you have become desensitized. If this force becomes conscious of itself, of its real and deep desire, it will realize that these three passions are only masks, merely distorted translations of a deeper need, the need to be loved and recognized.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“We imagine that we need to be loved and recognized as a totally unique being, as an entity separate from the common mortal by our greatness, and this also is a distorted translation of an essential need, the need to be recognized as nonseparate from the world, as a stream of love independent of an elevated ego.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“What way do I take to get there? You are the way and the destination. How do I start? By entering into profound communication with the reality of your life as it is. How do I find this capacity, develop it? By starting with what touches you or moves you naturally.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Everything breaks free from your own heart, no one gives you anything whatsoever, no one acts to provoke anything whatsoever. Love emerges from you because it is in you.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“at the heart of every person is an absolute and faultless realm that cannot be sullied or damaged by any action. All aggression takes place at the edges of this immaculate jewel.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“You have to really imagine that a person’s quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“What the other waits for is to be deeply touched in respect, tremoring vibration, spontaneity, nonprogrammation; with you, in contact with your body, she simply wants to get a taste of limitlessness. She desires you to be her and the creation of the sexual act to be a wonderment because it is always new, without reference, without past. Here is a very great ritual, that of a life, of a work of art. It can happen in a train, on a public bench, on the grass, or in a bed.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“You have the openness necessary to live this experience deeply.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Do you mean that those who are considered masters do not have total mastery? They don’t have it because they aren’t looking for it. They accept reality, they go with life, they receive lessons from life and understand them often.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“The true nature of desire is to disappear in the intensity of its search.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Sexuality cannot be isolated, or made the special or choice vehicle of ecstasy, because the human being needs totality, he is totality. All searching that isolates one element of human nature in order to make it the only vehicle of the quest anticipates neurotic contact with life.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“do not oppose the sun with the moon anymore:”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“If we have the good fortune to be allergic to submission, to forms, to dogmas, to beliefs, to infallibility, to the idea of forming an artificial family isolated from society, and if we desire above all to live life deeply, perfectly integrated in society, then Tantra has something marvelous to offer to us. But Tantra requires a maturity, an independence, and a willingness not to conform.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“Respect, love of its expression: this is the Door.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“What we are fundamentally is not a perception, and it is therefore impossible to find through drugs, sexuality, or any sect or religion.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“The senses come out of their torpor; they stop waiting for exceptional circumstances to come along and wake them up. They find childhood again, adolescence, where the world unendingly sustains their capacity to vibrate. It is this deep and palpitating life that all those on the path of spontaneity know.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

“What a practitioner of the Tantric path quickly feels, and sometimes the very first day, is that the benefit or reward—the state of joy, space, and freedom—is not subsequent to the practice of awareness. It is, on the contrary, an integral part of it.”
― Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening