Quotes About Attachment

You will never live until you stop clinging to life. Let go. When you cling, happiness dies. If your happiness depends on anyone or anything, that's not happiness.

So spend some time seeing each of the things you cling to for what it really is, a nightmare that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, unhappiness on the other.

Your life as it is now: nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without: nightmare.

Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.

To come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

An attachment is not a fact. It is a belief, a fantasy, in your head, acquired through programming. If that fantasy did not exist inside your head, you would not be attached. You would love things and people, and you would enjoy them thoroughly, but on a nonattachment basis. As a matter of fact, is there any other way to really enjoy something?

Look at it this way: You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. If you wish to see them as they are you must attend to your attachments and the fears that your attachments generate.

If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you. Trifle, yes, because if you live long enough a day will easily come when it will cease to matter

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Now the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness—it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness; and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself.

En primer lugar, tus apegos: inevitablemente, siempre prestarás atención a lo que favorece o pone en peligro dichos apegos, y fingirás no ver lo demás. Lo demás

This is how your beliefs originate: they are fixed, unchanging ways of looking at a reality that is not fixed and unchanging at all, but constantly moving and changing. So, it is no longer the real world that you interact with and love, but a world created by your head. It is only when you drop your beliefs, fears, and the attachments that breed them that you will be freed from the insensitivity that makes you so deaf and blind to yourself and the world.

Si quieres verlas tal como ellas son, debes prestar atención a tus apegos y a los miedos que tales apegos engendran. Porque, cuando encaras la vida, son esos apegos y esos miedos los que deciden qué es lo que tienes que ver y lo que tienes que ignorar. Y sea cual sea lo que veas, ello va a absorber tu atención.

They are controlled, so manipulated. They are unhappy people, they are miserable people. They don't enjoy life. They are constantly tense and anxious. Do you call that human? And do you know why that happens? Only one reason: They identified with some label. They identified the "I" with their money or their job or their profession. That was their error.

cosa. La sinfonía de la vida prosigue, pero tú no dejas de mirar atrás, de aferrarte a unos cuantos compases de la sinfonía, de cerrar tus oídos al resto de la música, produciendo con ello una disarmonía y un conflicto entre lo que la vida te ofrece y aquello a lo que tú te aferras. Y vienen a continuación la tensión y la ansiedad, que constituyen la muerte misma del amor y de la gozosa libertad que el amor conlleva.

Cómo liberarse de un apego? Muchos suelen intentarlo por medio de la renuncia. Pero renunciar a unos cuantos compases de la sinfonía, hacerlos desaparecer de la conciencia, origina precisamente la misma clase de violencia, conflicto e insensibilidad que el aferrarse a ellos. Lo único que se consigue, una vez más, es endurecerse.

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

Tercera verdad: si deseas estar plenamente vivo, debes adquirir y desarrollar el sentido de la perspectiva. La vida es infinitamente más grande que esa nimiedad a la que tu corazón se ha apegado y a la que tú has dado el poder de alterarte de ese modo. Una nimiedad, sí, porque, si vives lo suficiente, es muy fácil que algún día esa cosa o persona deje de importarte...

Lo que necesitas no es renunciar, sino comprender, tomar conciencia. Si tus apegos te han ocasionado sufrimiento y aflicción, ésa es una buena ayuda para comprender. Si

se esfuma tu capacidad de llevar una existencia alegre, despreocupada y serena. Comprueba cuán verdadero es esto si lo aplicas al apego que has elegido.

Y qué es un apego? Es un estado emocional de vinculación compulsiva a una cosa o persona determinada, originado por la creencia de que sin esa cosa o persona