Your Attachment Quotes

#1. The mind doesn't harass you; your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!

Dada Bhagwan

#2. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

Roshan Sharma

#3. It is your attachment that creates hell.

Rajneesh

#4. You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

Rajneesh

#5. When you're focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you're believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

Byron Katie

#6. You must surrender your attachment to the outcome in order to make your greatest dreams come true. You must release your urgency and your need for control. Then your attitude of Trust will actually accelerate the Universal Laws, helping the process along.

Sandra Taylor

#7. Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#8. The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you're vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

Ram Dass

#9. Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Ramakrishna

#10. It is very important that you be compassionate with yourself. The worse you feel about yourself, the more you'll want to go back to the false safety of the bad relationship you were in. Your attachment system gets activated more when you feel bad about yourself

Amir Levine

#11. Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Wayne Dyer

#12. You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities,

Ted Dekker

#13. Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#14. Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

Ramakrishna

#15. Saying of the Prophet
Objects
It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Idries Shah

#16. If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Ralph Marston

#18. In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire ... and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Deepak Chopra

#19. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#20. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Deepak Chopra

#21. If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

Alphonsus Liguori

#22. As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#23. You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Michael Beckwith

#26. People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

David Levithan

#27. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

Marie Kondo

#28. 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

#29. I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

Edwidge Danticat

#30. The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Ian Gardner

#31. And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me.

Karen Traviss

#32. When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Larry Mullen

#33. You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Adyashanti

#34. It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

Anthony De Mello

#35. I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Andy Garcia

#36. Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am your mother." The father will say, "Love me; I am your father" - as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.

Rajneesh

#37. All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master, and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

Dan Millman

#39. Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

Wayne W. Dyer

#40. When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

Jack Kornfield

#41. Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Debbie Ford

#42. Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

Rajneesh

#43. I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

Isabel Lucas

#44. If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Warren Buffett

#45. Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

Umar

#46. That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.

Robert Downs

#47. Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Hanna Rosin

#48. When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment.

Rajneesh

#49. You can do your best and then, if things don't go your way, still become unconstructively upset, in a way that hinders your ability to bounce back. Dropping the attachment is the real trick.

Dan Harris

#50. If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

Yasmin Mogahed

#51. Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Timothy Keller

#52. Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

Garchen Rinpoche

#53. Attachment is defined as conditional love, while love with the universe is eternal and unconditional. If you want someone to behave according to your rules then that's not love, that's attachment.

Hina Hashmi

#54. Love is not emotional attachment or codependency. Love is being complete without needing to have another person by your side.

Cloris Kylie

#55. Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!

Dada Bhagwan

#56. Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

Dalai Lama

#57. When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

#58. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Jaggi Vasudev

#59. Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

Sarah Ruhl

#60. Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

Paul Of The Cross

#62. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...

Tom Althouse

#63. The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Andrew Cohen

#64. I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

Anthony De Mello

#65. A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

Ram Dass

#66. My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.

Frances Hardinge

#67. Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

John Of The Cross

#68. Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

Adam Mansbach

#69. Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Rajneesh

#70. In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

Albertus Magnus

#71. Then you're going to take off your suit and show me just how much you missed your phone cord."
"And the attachment."
"And the attachment.

Sylvain Reynard

#72. The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

Dada Bhagwan

#73. To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Laozi

#74. Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself and your emotions beyond that level. Pain will not go away, but you find that it is not hurting you that much.

Debasish Mridha

#75. ... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying." frm "Attachment," by me. Take your pick ... words, "writing freezes speech," Chris Hedges. "Writing is thinking," me.

Mark Jabbour

#76. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

George Washington

#77. Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If 'You' stay in 'Your [Pure Soul] state'; attachment-abhorrence will not occur.

Dada Bhagwan

#78. Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.

Rajneesh

#79. Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
languid spleen,
An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
not-too-French French bean!

W.S. Gilbert

#80. If giving my everything is what it takes, I won't hesitate, not for even a second. That's what it means to have something you'd give your life to keep safe.

Kyuugou

#81. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Dalai Lama

#82. First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides ... Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

Gautama Buddha

#83. Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.

Chris Milk

#84. If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art ... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

Piet Mondrian

#85. In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#86. It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#87. There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

Todd Gitlin

#88. Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Wayne Dyer

#89. Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Dan Millman

#90. Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

Helen Fisher

#91. One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

#92. Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any thing, any place, and particularly, any person.

Wayne W. Dyer

#93. If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Joe Vitale

#94. Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

Claire Cook

#95. our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or not for someone else is beside the point. They are essential for your happiness, and that is what's important.

Amir Levine

#96. When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

James Comey