Top 100 Quotes About Detachment
#1. 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
#2. Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings - Aryn's feelings - were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.
Paul S. Kemp
#3. He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
#4. Real hard work and satisfaction will bring a detachment from time and worries. Do what you love and life will flow downstream.
Phil Wohl
#6. All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11
James Finley
#7. The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.
Chris Matakas
#8. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave Flaubert
#9. He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now.
R.K. Lilley
#10. The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.
Vikram Chandra
#11. Lane watched her for a moment with mounting irritation. Quite probably, he resented and feared any signs of detachment in a girl he was seriously dating. In any case, he surely was concerned over the possibility that this bug Franny had might bitch up the whole weekend.
J.D. Salinger
#12. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.
Michael Foley
#13. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil
#14. You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.
Douglas Coupland
#15. The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
Teresa Of Avila
#16. The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber
#17. I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#18. The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.
Thomas Merton
#19. All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.
Robert Anton Wilson
#20. Even our strongest emotions die, don't you think? And we can look back to the woman we were three years ago with the same curiosity and detachment as if it were someone else.
Andre Maurois
#21. When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.
Sun Tzu
#22. Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
Rabindranath Tagore
#23. While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices. We should thus come out feeling much more in control of our own personal journeys.
Julia Woodman
#24. Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
#26. The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#28. The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.
Roshan Sharma
#29. I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
Ed Westwick
#30. I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.
Ken Wilson
#31. True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,
Owen Barfield
#32. Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does.
Mark Murphy
#33. There is no sense of loss in this transcendence of the quest to satisfy desires that previously seemed so important or of the pleasures that came from their satisfaction, for enlightenment involves detachment from one's desires.
Peter Singer
#34. We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.
Aleksandra Layland
#35. I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.
Antonio Porchia
#36. Let's not even touch life with the tips of our fingers.
Let's not even know the love in our minds.
May we never know the feel of a women's kiss, not even in our dreams.
Pessoa, Fernando
#37. We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
Anne Rice
#38. A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
Idries Shah
#39. It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#40. Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.
Edward Vilga
#41. Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.
C.C. Hunter
#42. It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.
Chris Matakas
#43. There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
Rudyard Kipling
#44. The government of Brazil had publicly proposed brokering a settlement between the United States and Cuba; Raskin, never afraid to speak his mind, suggested that the White House consider the offer. "Oh, no," Bundy said. "It'll take just one detachment and he'll be out of there.
Seymour M. Hersh
#45. All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
#46. define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at the world in an incarnational way Seeking freedom and detachment
James Martin
#47. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.
Henry Mintzberg
#48. As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'
Pema Chodron
#49. It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't.
Lauren Miller
#50. What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.
G.K. Chesterton
#51. Somehow I know that eventually we'll fall back into step, so the pain is the low hum of detachment rather than the screaming stab of the end.
Cat Patrick
#52. By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. 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
#54. Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
Brad Meltzer
#55. The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
Marshall McLuhan
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Staying loyal to your journey means you never abandon yourself by compromising your integrity or discounting your intuition or the signals that come from your body - the knot in the gut, emotional detachment, or loss of energy that signals something is amiss.
Charlotte Kasl
#59. It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
Alexander Pushkin
#60. Today, I will apply the concept of detachment, to the best of my ability, in my relationships. If I can't let go completely, I'll try to "hang on loose.
Melody Beattie
#61. The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
Gary Hopkins
#62. It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.
Raymond E. Feist
#63. She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance.
Liane Moriarty
#64. Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
Muso Kokushi
#66. Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
Doris Lessing
#67. The professional ideal of "detached concern" among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a prerequisite for effective patient care. But, much like oil and water, detachment and concern do not mix easily.
Christina Maslach
#68. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. I used to think I was in love with Mia because she was in love with me. Now when I watch her strutting down the runway, twisting and flouncing the way her mother trained her, I know she's just a human coat hanger. A wired body I hold late at night and try to fit into.
Laurie Perez
#70. The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
Zhuangzi
#71. He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Edward St. Aubyn
#73. We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
#74. Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.
Gerald Stern
#75. She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
#76. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
Albert Einstein
#77. I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
John Irving
#78. Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
William Osler
#79. Why is it called Dr. Device?" "When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device. M.D. Device." Ender still didn't understand. "M.D. The initials stand for Medical Doctor, too. M.D. Device, therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke." Ender didn't see what was funny about it.
Orson Scott Card
#80. I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
David Levithan
#81. Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
Edith Stein
#82. It is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.
William Ralph Inge
#83. Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
Susan Sontag
#84. My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.
Rajneesh
#85. That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
Pat Barker
#86. I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.
Susan Juby
#87. I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
Tabitha Suzuma
#88. A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don't you realize that?
Steven Erikson
#90. The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
Radhanath Swami
#91. She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.
John F. Kennedy
#92. The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#93. When you notice your world exactly as it is - free from judgment and with detachment from anticipated outcomes - that is Zen.
Dan Tricarico
#94. Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!
Philip Neri
#95. Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
Albert Ellis
#96. Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Elizabeth Goudge
#98. Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.
Erich Von Manstein
#99. What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Satyajit Ray
#100. Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.
The RZA
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