Top Attachment Quotes Collection
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Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.Collection: Attachment
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.Collection: Attachment
My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.Collection: Attachment
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.Collection: Attachment
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.Collection: Attachment
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.Collection: Attachment
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.Collection: Attachment
It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.Collection: Attachment
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.Collection: Attachment
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.Collection: Attachment
We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.Collection: Attachment
I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.Collection: Attachment
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)Collection: Attachment
Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.Collection: Attachment
There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.Collection: Attachment
If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.Collection: Attachment
Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.Collection: Attachment
This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.Collection: Attachment
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.Collection: Attachment
The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.Collection: Attachment
Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.Collection: Attachment
Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.Collection: Attachment
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?Collection: Attachment
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.Collection: Attachment
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.Collection: Attachment
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?Collection: Attachment
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.Collection: Attachment
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.Collection: Attachment
I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.Collection: Attachment
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.Collection: Attachment
Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.Collection: Attachment
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.Collection: Attachment
Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.Collection: Attachment
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.Collection: Attachment
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.Collection: Attachment
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.Collection: Attachment
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.Collection: Attachment
All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.Collection: Attachment
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.Collection: Attachment
That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.Collection: Attachment
If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.Collection: Attachment
If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.Collection: Attachment
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.Collection: Attachment
Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.Collection: Attachment
To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.Collection: Attachment
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.Collection: Attachment
Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment. The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death - but you are beyond the body. You are not the body; you are the bodiless. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth - that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer.Collection: Attachment
The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.Collection: Attachment
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.Collection: Attachment
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.Collection: Attachment