Non Attached Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza

#4. We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

Tim Stevens

#5. Memory is like a rope, knotted every three or four feet, and hanging down a deep well. When you pull it up, just about anything might be attached to those knots. But you'll never know what's there if you don't pull. And the more you pull at that rope, the more you find.

Dinty W. Moore

#6. [Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Bernard Berenson

#7. I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Alan Arkin

#8. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#9. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

Frederick Lenz

#10. At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

John Vane

#11. My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

Leslie Bibb

#12. Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Paul Virilio

#13. I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Norman Granz

#14. Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#15. most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

Andrew Sullivan

#17. To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

Peter Merry

#19. It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

Sarah Dessen

#20. Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.

Paul Auster

#21. ****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is by INTO THE DIM doesn't have any of my friends/comments/info. Not to worry, GR is working on it!! In the meantime...CUPCAKES FOR ALL!!****

Janet B. Taylor

#22. Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Albert Camus

#23. I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

Angel Olsen

#24. Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.

Harold Lloyd

#25. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

Hina Hashmi

#26. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.

P.H. Ditchfield

#27. I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

Ridley Scott

#28. I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

Janina Gavankar

#29. Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

Mike Carey

#30. All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

Diadochos Of Photiki

#31. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

Erik Larson

#32. Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

Terry Tempest Williams

#33. Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

Rick Mercer

#34. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

#36. Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.

Linda Grant