Attachment Quotes - Page 7

• If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Trying

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• Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Past, Yesterday

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• Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Path, Renounce

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• Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Light, Shining

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• If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Struggle, Roots, Suffering

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• Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Past, Choices

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 27, 2013

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• Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

  Dogen

  Thinking, Self, Practice

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Love You, Love Is, Enemy

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, America, Ease

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.312

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• Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

  Epictetus

  Self Esteem, Detachment, Concern

  Epictetus (2013). “The Enchiridion of Epictetus”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Freedom, 4th Of July, People

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• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Richard Mant

  Son, Men, Departure

  Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396

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• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Buddhist, Heart

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• It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Heart, Blessing, Self

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Bitterness, Bears

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Would Be

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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Very Deep, Music Business

  "Larry Mullen Jr: The Man on the Train". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

  Meister Eckhart

  Love, Experience Love

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• Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Thinking, Needs

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• We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

  William Hazlitt

  Long, Age, Disappear

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

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• In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

  Aristotle

  Order, Needs, Virtue

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• If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Order, Soul, Clay

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• The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Roots, Tree, Age

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• It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

  Tilopa

  Appearance

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• The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Loss, Opening Up

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