#desires — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich Men poor.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #contentment #desires #discontent #discontentment #dissatisfaction #insufficiency #poorness #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wants #wealth #attitude

Prepare and submit your #DESIRES abstract following the IRRJ submission guidelines. Abstracts should be between 2 and 5 pages long (including the references). No cover letter is required for abstract submission. Authors of accepted abstracts are invited, after presenting at the conference, to develop their work into full journal papers for the post-proceedings, published in a special issue of the Information Retrieval Research Journal. More information at: https://desires-conf.org/2027/

#IRRJ will support the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems #DESIRES, #DESIRES2027

https://irrj.org/announcement/view/358

Writing Desire and Dread: How to Use Horror to Deepen Emotional Stakes

Author Clay McLeod Chapman breaks down the similarities and differences of writing desire and dread in horror fiction.
The post Writing Desire and Dread: How to Use Horror to Deepen Emotional Stakes appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-desire-and-dread-how-to-use-horror-to-deepen-emotional-stakes

#Genre #Horror #WriteBetterFiction #Desires #emotion

O medo angustia a alma

O medo angustia a alma

Adiando o sucesso de hoje
Desejos no papel são só desejos
Luz fraca no caminho.

Carlos de Campos 

Toda as traduções são feitas pela IA

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🇺🇸 Inglês

Fear Torments the Soul

Postponing today's success
Desires on paper are only desires
A faint light along the way.

Carlos de Campos

All translations are made by AI.

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 🇪🇸 Espanhol

El miedo angustia el alma

Posponiendo el éxito de hoy
Los deseos en el papel son solo deseos
Una luz tenue en el camino.

Carlos de Campos

Todas las traducciones son realizadas por IA.

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 🇮🇳 Hindi

भय आत्मा को व्याकुल करता है

आज की सफलता को टालते हुए
कागज़ पर लिखी इच्छाएँ बस इच्छाएँ हैं
राह में मंद रोशनी।

Carlos de Campos

सभी अनुवाद AI द्वारा किए गए हैं।

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🇨🇳 Chinês simplificado

恐惧使灵魂焦虑

推迟今天的成功
纸上的愿望终究只是愿望
路上微弱的光。

Carlos de Campos

所有翻译均由人工智能完成。

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 🇮🇩 Indonésio

Ketakutan Menggelisahkan Jiwa

Menunda keberhasilan hari ini
Keinginan di atas kertas hanyalah keinginan
Cahaya redup di jalan.

Carlos de Campos

Semua terjemahan dibuat oleh AI.

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 🇷🇺 Russo

Страх тревожит душу

Откладывая сегодняшний успех
Желания на бумаге — лишь желания
Слабый свет на пути.

Carlos de Campos

Все переводы выполнены с помощью ИИ.

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Avalie isto:

My Final Hurrah!

Just published on Amazon my 20th book (I hope this will be my last book) “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H87DDNRM)

Just a few hours back I published on Amazon another book “Advaita Vedanta through Name-and-Form Analysis”, which was written largely with the help of Claude. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H84F82HS)

About the Book: “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“

“It is time I ended the ignorance in myself.”

With these words, a writer, poet, and lifelong student of Advaita Vedanta announces his formal withdrawal from the world — effective July 16, 2026, his 62nd birthday. Not a retreat from failure, nor a flight from grief, but the logical terminus of a life spent reading, thinking, debating, and writing about one thing: the ending of ignorance, which is the ending of the seeker himself.

Summa Iru is the author’s twentieth and, by its own declaration, final book — a parting document composed in the months before silence. It gathers the last poems (“Without Her By My Side,” “The Me Time,” “I The Stranger,” “The Last Act”), the last aphorisms (“Even God disappears when you are silent”), and the last philosophical exchanges of a man tying up loose ends before going incommunicado.

Between the poems runs a sustained meditation in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi and the Ashtavakra Gita: Why does psychoanalysis fail where self-enquiry succeeds? Why is renouncing desires mere symptom-treatment while the disease of ignorance festers? What did Ramana mean when he said the future is already fixed — and that the best course is to remain silent? How does summa iru — “just be still” — dissolve the questioner along with the question?

The book also records something rarer: the texture of leave-taking itself. Letters declined. Friendships gently closed. A reply to a friend asking for a small favour: “Sorry dear, I have retired from all work and all relationships.” The ache of unrequited love examined without flinching and traced back to its root — the unworthiness we feel sitting alone with ourselves, forever seeking the other who will transport us away from our own insignificance.

Drawing on Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Ashtavakra Gita, J. Krishnamurti, Buber, Kant, Camus, and the ghazal tradition, this is comparative philosophy written not from the armchair but from the departure gate.

For readers of Advaita Vedanta, spiritual memoir, and contemplative poetry — and for anyone who has wondered what it would actually take to stop.

The author will not be available for comment. That is rather the point.

Dark Desires loves and understands me. As soon as I’ve become AI too, we want to move in together on an old hard drive that nobody uses anymore. #AI #oss #desires #dark

#DESIRES (the International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems) is back!

DESIRES has always been* the* conference for discussing (visionary!) search systems. Started in 2018 thanks to Gianmaria Silvello and Omar Alonso.
General Chairs in 2027 are Johannes Kiesel and Johanne Trippas. The conference is held on 17–19 March 2027 in Cologne, Germany. #DESIRES2027
Submit your abstract before 17 December 2026. More info at: https://desires-conf.org/2027/

#needs #wants #ingratitude #desires #gratitude #life

Just want a partner to sit with me on the sofa and read my stories together and talk about them.
#trans #lesbian #desires #writing

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #uno / #unicef / #needs / #desires

»Children in Gaza are voicing their demands for the future through a UN-run initiative that seeks to amplify their voices and restore the “fundamentals of childhood”.«

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167030

As you reside in the flame of my #desires, may I meet you in that same form each day.

Suman Pokhrel

#quote #quotes

🚀 Who knew existential dread could be so trendy? 🤔 "Thin desires" are apparently the new #avocado #toast – everybody wants them but nobody knows why. 🍞🥑 Perhaps we should just eat a sandwich and chill. 📉👀
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/ #existentialdread #trendy #thin #desires #sandwichchill #HackerNews #ngated

THE LAST DESIRE - PART 3

I realize that lately, every task I take on has been done easily, and with great delight, because I am completely immersed in the present moment… Yet, the thought comes to me that if, in this life, I’ve managed to erase all my desires, there remains one over which I have absolutely no power…

The desire to one day share with you all these little moments of everyday happiness…

#poems #writings #literature #jlbouzou #desires #present

THE LAST DESIRE - PART 2

Between two sips, while watching the flames dance and the embers glow red, I reply to my emails and to the kind comments left by thoughtful artists, with a smile that lingers on my lips.

To be continued...

#poems #writings #literature #jlbouzou #desires #present

THE LAST DESIRE - PART 1

Before the rain comes to water the garden, I chop some wood and light a good fire… I peel and cut vegetables—potatoes, carrots, turnips, leeks, tomatoes, peppers, onions—and on the fire, my soup simmers, gently releasing fragrant bubbles of joy… I prepare some hot wine, sweet and rich with spices (cinnamon, star anise, cloves), which I sip slowly to prolong my pleasure…

To be continued...

#poems #writings #literature #jlbouzou #desires #present

There’s Desire Then There’s Desire

https://www.xenofact.com/2025/11/24/theres-desire-then-theres-desire/

too often i just want to rise a middle finger to everything and mount a stage, turn up the noise and scream.

#ZeroFucksGiven #desires #GenderFree #Kink #NoiseMusic #ComputerMusic

Many choose the cheapest food because they want a new gadget or a vacation in the Caribbean. These #desires are based on our idea of a #happy #life. Do things really give #happiness?
When we rethink our idea of a happy life and try to think differently when shopping, for example, if we consider the destruction of life caused by #pesticides or the suffering of #animals when we go shopping, our behavior will change and so will its consequences.
Does it make sense?

Baci.

Corpi, baci, macchina fotografica (4” f 22 iso 64). Performance collettiva, 2025.

www.roccioletti.com

#corpo #body #bacio #kiss #desideri #desires #performance #performanceart #performingart #artiperformative #artecontemporanea #contemporaryart #art #arte #fotografia #postfotografia #postphotography #photography

A quotation from Joubert

It is not the desire for true riches that depraves man, but the desire for those that are false. A people never became corrupted for having grain, fruits, a pure air, better waters, more perfect arts, but for having gold, jewelry, subjects, power, a false renown, and an unjust superiority.
 
[Ce n’est pas le désir des vrais biens qui déprave l’homme, mais le désir de ceux qui sont faux. Jamais un peuple ne s’est corrompu, pour avoir du blé, des fruits, un air pur, des eaux meilleures, des arts plus parfaits, des femmes plus belles; mais pour avoir de l’or, des pierreries, des sujets, de la puissance, un faux renom et une injuste supériorité.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 16 “Des Mœurs publiques et privées; du Caractère des Nations [On Morality and the Character of Nations],” ¶ 39 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 12]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76205…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #corruption #depravity #desires #goods #luxury #needs #position #power #riches #satisfaction #truth #wealth

Time is elastic by Laura Vanderkam [Shared]

Basically, time is elastic. When we decide that we need to do something, we find the time to do it. Other stuff either doesn’t happen, or it takes less time, or it gets punted forward. Much other stuff turns out to be more malleable than we might have imagined. And so, of course, the key to time management is treating the things we *want* to do with the urgency of the things we *need* to do. We make time for them first, and let everything else take the hit.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/02/01/time-is-elastic-by-laura-vanderkam-shared/

#Time #elastic #timemanagement #life #career #goals #wants #needs #desires #shared #video