Quotes About Attachment And Detachment

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

Roshan Sharma

#2. Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

Barbara Tuchman

#3. He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#4. I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

Jayne Mansfield

#5. Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Iris Murdoch

#9. 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

#10. We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Henry Fielding

#12. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Stephen Levine

#15. The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

Cathy Hughes

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

Chris Matakas

#17. I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

Shani Davis

#18. When we cannot handle our suffering, we spew forth our frustration and pain onto those around us. We are victims of our own suffering, but because we do not know how to handle it, we hurt others while we are in pain.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Radhanath Swami

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

Albert Ellis

#21. No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up ... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

Rajneesh

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. We all just want a life that matters!!

Dianna Donnely

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

Chris Matakas

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

Simone Weil

#29. Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)

Sarah Vowell