Thubten Yeshe Quote

As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves...

Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2005) - ISBN: 9780861719976