#Desire

Thought is good to tell you about your motivation. But no actions come from thoughts. Action arises from desire. So, in meditation thoughts are dropped therefore we can have pure motivation to look deeply at our desires to determine if our actions are…

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. For centuries, sailors enduring months-long voyages would gaze out at sea mammals sunning themselves and think the thought…

Huge, ecstatic canvases are just one of the vocations of the musician who joined the art rockers in 2024. As her show Hotwire My Heart opens, she talks terror, awe and teabags

COUNTDOWN TO BOOKER | In his new novel, the Booker Prize-winning author explores religious guilt, sexual repression and the devastating consequences of lives lived in shame

Don’t get confused: There is a 1987 film called Wings Of Desire, a British indie rock duo named Wings Of Desire, and now a Mia Joy single titled “Wings Of Desire.” The song is what we’re talking about today, as it’s the dreamy lead single of her…

“Desiring Machines”, a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mar del Plata, Argentina, asks viewers not to fear merging with technology.

The actress, who has expressed a desire to move abroad, got $24.75 million, $250,000 more than what she had paid. Also, Larry Ellison, John McEnroe and Little Steven are selling their homes.

The Tyranny of the Self Writing, Recognition, and the Moral Anxiety of Intellectual Life The Manuscripts Left in Silence There comes a point in the life of a writer when the central struggle is no …

A review of "Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today" at the Stedelijk and Noordbrabants Museum's “Am I Masculine? Fashion, Art, and Photography”

Islands emerge in novels and poems as mythical, seductive places; they are separate from the mainland in a way that could be a punishment or an escape, or sometimes both. They are places of nostalg…

It’s a freezing early December night in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and 500 Arlo Parks fans slowly shuffle into the converted garage SILO to hear… On her third album, Arlo Parks finds true love

My father described his infidelities “playfully, with only a dash of contrition.” That is a sentence I wrote in my novel The Monuments of Paris, and it is also, as closely as I can render it, somet…

Desire vs. Arousal: Why You Can Be Wet But Not Wanting, or Hard But Not Horny The Difference Between Physical Arousal and Genuine Desire You know the feeling. You’re touching her. She’s wet …

Russell’s destiny as an ethical thinker was dominated by one book—G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903). Before 1903, Russell devoted some of the energy that he could spare from German Social Democracy, the foundations of mathematics and the philosophy of…

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: Viraha: Understanding the sacred ache of longing through Urdu poetry and the monsoon

Sparks fly in this homoerotic dance of desire and betrayal, from a powerful new voice in Irish literature Toxic masculinity, that repressed and repressive male energy that does so much to fuel brutality and abuse, sometimes finds itself on the brink of a…

From Books | The Guardian: My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review – as fierce and strange as anything you’ll read this year