Attachment Abhorrence Quotes

#1. The mind doesn't harass you; your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If 'You' stay in 'Your [Pure Soul] state'; attachment-abhorrence will not occur.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for 'Knowledge' is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don't occur.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. When there is no attachment-abhorrence; one is on the path of liberation [moksha].

Dada Bhagwan

#7. Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!

Dada Bhagwan

#12. The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Mary Karr

#15. Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him? - Cat to Bones

Jeaniene Frost

#16. God has said for us to know bad, as bad and good, as good. But while knowing the bad, there should not be the slightest abhorrence towards it and while knowing the good, there should not be slightest attachment towards it. Without knowing bad, as bad, the good cannot be known as good.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Monica Potter

#18. Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

June Jordan

#20. I want to have her hands..!
Morino's hands...

Otsuichi

#21. If you want liberation [moksha], you will have to be rid of the duality of 'right-and-wrong'. If you want to attain an auspicious (good) state, then have abhorrence for the 'wrong', and attachment for the 'right'. There is no attachment or abhorrence in the pure state [shuddha].

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, 'Do no abhorrence. If you don't like it, ignore it'.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence for the bad (the inauspicious). The one without duality is in equanimity-state. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!

Dada Bhagwan

#24. The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

Ed Seykota

#25. I want to tell you all the sad things, and then you will know me better than other people know me and that means we are reserved for one another.

Nina LaCour

#26. Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

Dada Bhagwan

#27. Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. 'We' are separate and the relative self is separate from us. 'We' should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn't get involved with those problems.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. I made a statement all my own.

Jeff Buckley

#29. Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Alice Walker

#30. All actions are of the relative-self (prakrutik). Moksha (liberation) is the absence of attachment and abhorrence therein.

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Everyone is beautiful to someone.

Kevyn Aucoin

#32. Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.

Dada Bhagwan

#33. When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones; that is considered equanimity.

Dada Bhagwan

#34. It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.

Dada Bhagwan

#35. [To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Elizabeth I

#36. Hopefully, he realized that running into a town, guns blazing, where there were a thousand people, many of them armed, would be a very short mission of vengeance.

Steve McHugh

#37. It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.

Charlene Vermeulen

#38. The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

Dada Bhagwan

#39. I have made a lot of mistakes.

Steven Seagal