Top Attachment Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Sharon Salzberg
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
- Sharon Salzberg
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Image of Rajneesh
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Lionel Shriver
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
- Lionel Shriver
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Image of Teresa of Avila
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
- Teresa of Avila
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Rajneesh
It is your attachment that creates hell.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Paul of the Cross
Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.
- Paul of the Cross
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Image of Paul of the Cross
He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.
- Paul of the Cross
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Image of Teresa of Avila
If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
- Teresa of Avila
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Image of David Foster Wallace
Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of George Washington
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
- George Washington
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Image of Rachel Naomi Remen
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
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Image of Rajneesh
Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Helen Fisher
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
- Helen Fisher
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Image of Peace Pilgrim
You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.
- Peace Pilgrim
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Image of Ramakrishna
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
- Ramakrishna
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Image of George Washington
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
- George Washington
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Image of Rachel Vincent
Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!
- Rachel Vincent
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Image of Leonard Jacobson
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
- Leonard Jacobson
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Image of Marlo Morgan
The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.
- Marlo Morgan
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of Zhuangzi
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
- Zhuangzi
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Image of Philip Neri
Without mortification nothing can be done.
- Philip Neri
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Image of Philip Neri
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
- Philip Neri
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Image of Pema Chodron
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.
- Pema Chodron
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Image of John Vianney
Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
- John Vianney
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Image of John Vianney
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
- John Vianney
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Image of Deepak Chopra
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of John Climacus
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.
- John Climacus
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Image of Ram Dass
Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.
- Ram Dass
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Image of Anthony Daniels
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
- Anthony Daniels
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Image of Neem Karoli Baba
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.
- Neem Karoli Baba
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Image of Adyashanti
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
- Adyashanti
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Image of Albert Ellis
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
- Albert Ellis
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Image of Frederick Lenz
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Walt Disney
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.
- Walt Disney
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Image of T. S. Eliot
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .
- T. S. Eliot
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Ellie Goulding
I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.
- Ellie Goulding
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Image of Edward Gibbon
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.
- Edward Gibbon
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Image of John Carroll
The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.
- John Carroll
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Image of Edward Gibbon
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.
- Edward Gibbon
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Image of Aristotle
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
- Aristotle
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