Quotes About Attachment

At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.

En el samsara hay innumerables trampas que nos conducen al sufrimiento. En lugar de encontrar el camino de la vacuidad, que nos conduce a la libertad, seguimos atrapados por su opuesto, el aferramiento a la existencia verdadera. Si mientras permanecemos en el samsara no encontramos el camino de la vacuidad

Entiende que la fortuna no es sino infortunio interminable, por el desasosiego de adquirirla y guardarla y por la desolación que acompaña el perderla.

Cómo puede un ser fugaz apegarse a otro ser fugaz?, pues no volverá a ver a su ser amado en miles de nacimientos.

Fear arises from desire, yet it passes away by itself. Generate fortitude and look at it with indifference.210

I will always love the false image I had of you.

Every time my mind wanders ,it wanders straight to you

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

Anyone who is still attached to religious ideas and continues to hold to them cannot, therefore, in the nature of the case, be a member of the Communist Party.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

You deserve to need me, not to have me.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

The mind that doesn't need any outer conditions for happiness is the mind that can say, "This is the release from all suffering. This is true happiness." Such a mind sees with clarity the absolute reality of what's happening in this universe and doesn't have to hang on to anything, attach to anything, doesn't have to become anything, doesn't have to be anything. It just does what is necessary at each particular moment and then lets go.

Nothing that is to be had in the world, anywhere, under any circumstances, is capable of bringing fulfillment

Samsara is not out there, but rather in the way that we experience our environment. To target it precisely, samsara is in the quality of our minds. Our minds are not functioning in accord with reality, and therein lies the problem.

Avirati: This is the tremendous craving for sensory objects after they have been consciously abandoned, which is so hard to restrain. Without being attached to the objects of sense, the yogi learns to enjoy them with the aid of the senses which are completely under his control. By the practice of pratyahara he wins freedom from attachment and emancipation from desire and becomes content and tranquil.

Many yoga teachers ask you to do the asanas with ease and comfort and without any stress or true exertion. this ultimately leaves the practitioner living within the limits of his or her mind, with the inevitable fear, attachment, and pettiness.

The time ego grows up when we start ignoring the person we are deeply in love with.

Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attached to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.

Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of "likes" and "dislikes". In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.