Attachment Quotes - Page 15

• Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule.

  Ali Sina

  Powerful, Pride, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

  William James

  Fighting, Athletic, Soul

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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

  Joe Vitale

  Miracle, Outcomes, Release

  Joe Vitale (2013). “Expect Miracles”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Appreciate

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

  Ruskin Bond

  Distance, Moving, Long

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• Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

  Zeena Schreck

  Animal, Ego, Over You

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• Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

  Danielle Steel

  Responsibility, Self, People

  Danielle Steel (2004). “Second Chance”, Random House LLC

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• To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Mean, Doe

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• To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Suffering, Desire, Earth

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• Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

  Mahavatar Babaji

  Responsibility, Enlightenment, World

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Order, Acquire, Universe

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.58, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Political, Principles

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Perception, Influence

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• 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

  Doubt, Sentimental, Week

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• While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Grief

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

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• I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Home, Emotional

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• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Hands, Puppets, Needs

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• 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.

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  Ram Dass

  Pain, Long, Way

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• Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Giving Up

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• Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love Is

  "The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark". Book by Mikhail Naimy, 2011.

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• She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

  Jane Austen

  Tired, Letters, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

  David Foster Wallace

  Giving, Care, Temples

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Self, Three, Looks

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

  Idries Shah

  Religious, Pride, People

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.3, Octagon Press Ltd

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