Attachment Quotes - Page 19

• I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

  Peter Damian

  Flesh, Spirit, Scourge

  Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.45, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Inward, Way, Easy

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• 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

  Spiritual, Desire, Relax

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.

  Ellie Goulding

  People, Connections, Want

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• If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.

  Tara Brach

  Real, Healing, Forgiving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.

  Judith Butler

  Ethos, Identity, Demand

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

  Gerald Stern

  Buddhism, Suffering, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Christian, Crazy, Heaven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

  Tara Brach

  Judging, Separation, Persons

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Mean, Space

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.

  Tara Brach

  Healthy, Honor, Important

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jobs, War, Men

  "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to what is happening here. I've definitely been in a place where I've felt some energy that someone was watching me.

  Jeordie White

  Home, Thinking, Energy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

  Elia Suleiman

  Trying, Use, World

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• Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  George Washington

  Feelings, Essentials, Passionate

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Ice, Evil

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction, that deep, Imago attachment is more powerful than logic, and in fact disables logic. So, any explanation or analysis or reflection on such a feeling is already many steps removed from the experience.

  Melissa Febos

  Powerful, Smart, Reflection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Emotional, Ideas, Qualms About

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• As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Pain, Confused, Way

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• I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.

  Melissa Febos

  Thinking, Childhood, Rupture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ...letting go of attachment to any way of believing or thinking has made me feel more expanded and almost transparent so that universal energy can just flow through me.

  Anita Moorjani

  Letting Go, Believe, Thinking

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.160, Hay House, Inc

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