Attachment Quotes - Page 25

• When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Love You

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• (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Real

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• 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.

  John Quincy Adams

  People, May, Constitution

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.

  Ma Jaya

  Heart, Love Is, Sentimental

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• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Real, Awakening

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Life And Love, Eternal Love, Satisfaction

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to distinguish within yourself between love and fear and choose love regardless of what is going on inside yourself or outside. This is self-mastery or authentic power...that means you become clear, forgiving, humble and loving... you are grounded in harmony, cooperating, sharing and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Mean, Heart

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• Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Giving, Stills

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “Miscellany”, p.111, Aeterna Press

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Careers

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

  Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press

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• According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Psychology, Trouble

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

  George Washington

  Evil, Passionate, Produce

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.40, New York : J. Wiley

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• When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

  Zhuangzi

  Tao, Affirmation, Negation

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• [A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Class, Parent

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• Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Oneness, Self

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• Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Real, Compassion

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• PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Blame

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

  Takenaka Shigekata

  Art, Warrior, Mind

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• From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Memories, Confused, Men

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• I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Memories, Ignorance, States

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• At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.

  Jerome Kagan

  Children, Believe, School

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• If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.

  Sarada Devi

  Eye, Sake, Should

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• All misery and pain come from attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Misery And Pain, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.63, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

  James Franco

  Men, Body, Pillow

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