Attachment Quotes - Page 22

• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Baby, Romantic Love

  "Pharmaceutica L Love Potion Not yet..." by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. January 7, 2009.

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• As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

  Adi Shankara

  Inspiration, Reality, Meditation Practice

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• The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.

  Gardiner Spring

  Character, Yield, Views

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.122

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• Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Expectations, Meditation

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Want, Illusion

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Hands, Mind

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• The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Truth, Fall, Light

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• The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Practice, Helping

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Mind, Conquer

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Inspiration, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

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• Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

  Mooji

  Freedom, Self

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• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

  Walt Disney

  Should Have, World, Littles

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• In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Change, Wish, Identity

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Penguin

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• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• 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

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Soul

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• I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Magazines, Alive

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• You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Brother, Powerful, Spring

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path Of Love, Shows

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• To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Suffering

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 2" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2010.

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• The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

  Brad Warner

  Strong, Real, Drama

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.54, New World Library

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