Non Possessiveness Quotes

#1. Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#2. Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

Rajneesh

#3. This possessiveness you've unleashed and decided to toy with isn't tame. Keep that in mind when you poke the beast... If you let anyone touch you, they die.

Setta Jay

#4. Of course I won't go alone. I shall take my maid."
"No," Sebastian said. "You will take me.

Amanda Quick

#5. Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally ...

Edward Abbey

#6. Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other "material" thing is often "immaterial" to God.

Donald L. Hicks

#7. We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.

Rajneesh

#8. Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the abyss if the rope failed. "It will work. I haven't got this far to give up."
"It'll work." Dan's kisses grew more intense. "It must." Because you're mine, and you belong to me.

Aleksandr Voinov

#9. 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.

Rajneesh

#10. I don't own you, you just belong to me.

Pushpa Rana

#11. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Pema Chodron

#12. It is jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, anger, violence; it is a thousand and one things except love. It masquerades as love - because all these things are so ugly they cannot exist without a mask.

Osho

#13. She had the courage that accepts instantly, without recoil, and the reverence in love that towards man is without possessiveness and towards God without rebellion

Elizabeth Goudge

#14. By "love" people mean a certain kind of monopoly, some possessiveness, without understanding a simple fact of life: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed that person. Life

Osho

#15. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In

Bertrand Russell

#16. When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

Paul Budnitz