Quotes About Attachment

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

I need to hold on to the faded love 'cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers

A hand held tightly, never to really let go.Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.

What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).

To have a desire means to have dependency.

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as "purity of heart" or as the process of becoming "poor in spirit.