Quotes About Attachment Buddhism

#1. Dare to live by letting go.

Tom Althouse

#2. Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.
Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ...

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#4. My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

Tom Althouse

#5. We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of 'civilized' manners and 'cultured' social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

Stephen Batchelor

#6. How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.

Gunnar Ardelius

#7. In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Jason Mraz

#8. Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs ... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#9. Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

Gerald Stern

#10. With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. Precepts in Buddhism are not imposed by some outside authority. They arise from our own insight based on the practice of mindfulness. To be attached to the form without understanding the essence is to fall into what Buddhism calls attachment to rules.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Gloria E. Anzaldua

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

Chris Matakas

#14. Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity.

Santosh Kalwar

#15. The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

Frederick Lenz

#16. They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.

Will Hobbs

#18. Attachment leads to suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#19. When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Tara Brach

#20. If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Chris Matakas

#22. The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

Jay Roach

#24. Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

Frederick Lenz