Attachment Quotes - Page 16

• Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Night, Bows

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Albert Ellis

  People, Detachment, Things You Love

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• Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Feelings, Flow, Detachment

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Becoming, Virtue, Detachment

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• This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

  David Levithan

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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

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• Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Struggle, Burdens Of Life

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• This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  World, Worried, This World

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• Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Greed, Lust, Path

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• The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Men, Reflection

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• "I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Transformation

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Evil

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• It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Land, Justice, Diversity

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Roots

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• I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

  Tom Waits

  Acceptance, Whatsapp, Cool Status

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• The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
  They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
  If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
  If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

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• Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself. [...] That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.

  Andrew Comiskey

  Gay, Inspired, Source

  "Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual". Book by Andrew Comiskey, 1988.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Eye, Mind

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Pride, Helping Others, Hatred

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.135, Penguin Books India

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• Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Attitude, Acceptance

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.82, Basic Books

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Expression, Perspective

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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