Quotes About Attachment

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

He loves little who loves by rule.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.