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Our desire to alter our consciousness may be as fundamental as our desires for food, companionship and sex.
And ultimately, I think that boils down to the kids, and to every parent's desire to put our baby in a bubble, and the fear that somehow drugs will pierce that bubble and put our young ones at risk.
My desire was to make it as a trek.
So, let me go through what you gain when you look at the world this way, besides some entertaining insights about human desire.
It's so that we don't have any sexual desire.
My desire to create a sensor-based technology perhaps stemmed from my lifelong love for sensors and technology.
Since I was only six years old at the time and I hadn't graduated from kindergarten yet, I didn't have the necessary resources and tools to translate my idea into reality, but nonetheless, my research experience really implanted in me a firm desire to use sensors to help the elderly people.
It’s the very act of struggling with these paradoxical puzzles which challenge our desire for resolution, and our understanding of understanding itself.
Paleontology allowed me to combine my love for animals with my desire to travel to far-flung corners of the world.
And contrary to what you may think, affairs are way less about sex, and a lot more about desire: desire for attention, desire to feel special, desire to feel important.
That in itself is a desire machine, because the incompleteness, the ambiguity, keeps you wanting that which you can't have.
Something about the fear of loss will rekindle desire, and make way for an entirely new kind of truth.
And the dilemmas of love and desire, they don't yield just simple answers of black and white and good and bad, and victim and perpetrator.
And trees ultimately became such a powerful visual metaphor because in many ways, they really embody this human desire for order, for balance, for unity, for symmetry.
Under the surface of their aloneness, there is a desire for community, for their people.
Our desire to be seen to be compassionate is what led us to commit this profoundly un-compassionate act.
A whole venture capital industry has grown up around the belief that if people have good ideas and the desire to manifest them, we should give them lots and lots and lots of money.
On the contrary, we're fulfilling the murderer's desire to be seen.
So some much-needed guidelines or rules were set into place, and part of that was this desire to protect women of childbearing age from entering into any medical research studies.
I had no desire to reinvent the wheel.
Our desire and ability to share and collaborate has been a huge part of our success story.
Then, a third thing happens: the desire to breathe.
I'm not a fish, I'm a human being, and the desire to breathe reminds me of that fact.
That became my strong desire to ignite innovation.
I described to them in the email my educational path, and my desire to find myself again in pursuit of the PhD.
This is not a request born out of a desire to fit in.
Michelangelo chose to paint destiny, that universal desire, common to all of us, to leave a legacy of excellence.
Is love a disguise for our sexual desire, or a trick of biology to make us procreate?
Much, much later, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer maintained that love based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.
Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire so that we can reach Nirvana, an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.
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