Non Attachment Vs Detachment Quotes

#1. You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

Francesca Lia Block

#2. It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual 'magic' causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.

Christopher Dines

#3. You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.

James Ponsoldt

#4. 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.

A. G. Mohan

#5. Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

Margaret Atwood

#7. 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

#8. Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#9. [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Stephen Levine

#10. If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

Roshan Sharma

#11. I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Alan K. Simpson

#12. Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Radhanath Swami

#13. The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

Chris Matakas

#14. Cinder tapped her fingers against her hip. Repairs - what a very cyborg term.

Marissa Meyer

#15. Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Albert Ellis

#16. My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Rajneesh

#17. Now this is where,
this is where,
this is where we've ended.

Lang Leav

#18. If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.

Emil Cioran

#19. Yet the saint obediently accepted the destruction of his plans and blessed God. Because of this kind of detachment from his own will and attachment to God's, Louis became an instrument used by God to accomplish even mightier works.

Michael Gaitley

#20. For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Gerald Stern

#21. No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Damien Hirst

#22. It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.

Chris Matakas

#23. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil