Quotes About Attachment

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.

Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

It's been over 10 years since I've lived in Wisconsin, but it'll always feel like home to me.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

Every woman is possessive though she may not show it.

Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.