Attachment Quotes - Page 17

• We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Important, Hereafter

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• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

  Gautama Buddha

  Healing, Wonderful, Sticky

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• All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

  Rajneesh

  Illusion

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• I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

  David Livingstone

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

  David Livingstone

  Desire, Missionary, Causes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Enjoy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Heart, Loss, Needs

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, America

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• It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

  Noah Levine

  Hate, Important, World

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Firsts, World

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• The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Revolution, Action, Dedicated

  "The Revolutionary Catechism" by Sergey Nechayev, www.marxists.org. 1869.

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• Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Emotional, Israel, Objectivity

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• Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

  John Quincy Adams

  Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

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• People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

  Lionel Shriver

  People, Steps, Adaptation

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.159, Counterpoint Press

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• If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Gratitude, Believe

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• For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

  Peter Damian

  Eye, Pride, Law

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• love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Love Is, Roots, People

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• Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Strong, Discipline, Doe

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• Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

  Philip Neri

  Sanctity, Mortification

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.54, St Athanasius Press

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• ‎"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

  Love You, Trying, Losing

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• Without mortification nothing can be done.

  Philip Neri

  Done, Mortification

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.38, St Athanasius Press

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• He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

  Paul of the Cross

  Doe, Flesh, Palate

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• He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Wish, Delight

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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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