Quotes About Attachment

Collectors tend to feel attached to their collections in ways that may seem irrational if viewed in terms of the normal functions of the things collected.

I was given some bits of rock sugar and a few flower petals which I did not of course like to throw away so that I was still clutching them on the bus back to Satipur. When I thought Inder Lal was not looking, I respectfully tipped them out the side of the bus, but they have left the palm of my hand sticky and with a lingering smell of sweetness and decay that is still there as I write.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

Who would hold her when he had to let go? And why did the thought of Thea alone, without him, make him want to tear the world apart for its cruelty?

You have no idea how hard I've fallen in love with you. I don't think a person could fall any harder.

I'll only ever belong to you If you want me, I'll belong to you forever.

I'll always want you," he whispered urgently against her lips. "You're mine now, okay. Only mine.

meditation, if it is observed without craving or attachment, leads to purity. The

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazen hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?. Gene bu ak?am anlad?m ki, onu kaybettikten sonra, ben dünyada ancak kof bir ceviz tanesi gibi yuvarlan?p sürüklenebilirim.

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazan hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?. Gene bu ak?am anlad?m ki, onu kaybettikten sonra, ben dünyada ancak kof bir ceviz tanesi gibi yuvarlan?p sürüklenebilirim.

?nsan al??t???, güzel buldu?u, kendine yak?n buldu?u yerlerden ayr?l?rken sanki vücudunun bir k?sm?n? orda b?rak?yormu? gibi üzülür.

Muazzez'de Yusuf'u hemen hemen ayn? hislerle sevmekteydi.Onun a?k?nda da esas amil, di?erinin "lüzumlu" bir ?ey olmas?,onsuz hayat?n tasavvur edilmesine bile imkan bulunmamas?yd?.

Sen sevgiline ne verebilirsin sanki? Kalbini mi? Pekala, ikincisine? Gene mi o? Üçüncü ve dördüncüye de mi o?.. Atma be ada??m, kaç tane kalbin var senin?.. Hem biliyor musun, bu aptalca bir laft?r. Kalbin oldu?u yerde duruyor ve sen onu filana veya falana veriyorsun... Gö?sünü yararak o eti oradan ç?kar?r ve sevgilinin önüne atarsan o zaman kalbini vermi? olursun...

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazen hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?.

Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.

Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement.

The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don't attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.

The question is, are we using our emotions to entangle ourselves or to liberate ourselves?

For most people, love is initially a joy, but after a while it becomes an anxiety. Why? Because this "key" has legs and a will of its own. You can't keep it in your pocket or hang it around your neck. When you try to do that, two lives are heading straight for disaster!

The moment you get strongly identified, you lose your perspective on life!

What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who

Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means "what's fine" and "what's not fine" do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. When a devotee says "God is everywhere" or "everything is God," he is essentially saying "everything is fine.

Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow.

As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified and attached to different situations we get into, however beautiful the situation may be, the moment you think "this is it," you are trying to freeze yourself into a certain state of ignorance.