The Lexicon
How mind makes reality
Desire
Desire is the engine of all becoming, the soul's reaching toward more life. The teachers honor it not as something to be ashamed of but as the first stirring of creation itself: the very fact that you long for a thing is the sign that it lies within your power to receive. Desire is the starting point of riches, the inward pressure of the infinite seeking fuller expression through you. To feel a true desire is to hear destiny calling its own name.
Carried by 38 teachers · across 7 traditions · 18 quotes
The art lies in refining desire into a single dominating aim, charged with feeling and held with faith, rather than scattering it across a thousand fading wishes. A desire given a body, an ideal given a heart, becomes a reality; a mere wish dies in the wishing. The wise distinguish the soul's sincere desire from surface craving, and let the deep longing become a clear, definite picture. Desire, focused and felt, is the magnetic force that gathers the world toward its fulfillment.
In their words
Your desires always come true. Your wishes seldom do; they die by consuming themselves in forever wishing wishes. A desire with a body or an ideal with a heart always becomes a reality!Brown Landone
You wouldn't have a desire or a dream unless it were within your power to make it real.Eric John Campbell
Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.Baruch Spinoza
This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.Abraham Maslow
The desire that we feel is the proof of our own ability to attain.Wallace D. Wattles