Quotes About Attachment

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

Materialism is not having things, it is letting things have you.

The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.

All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Life is a battle of balance.Balance between attachment and detachment. Attach yourself enough, to feel the "Pain in others".Detach yourself enough, not to feel the "Paininflicted by others".

How strange the feelings when it was not your name anymore that appeared as that person's favorite.

There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

The intellect perpetuates the worldly life.

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.

Make friends not best friends, Make a crush not a lover, Because not everyone are meant to be with you always and when they leave or when they make you leave, you are the one going to suffer the most..

said, "Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Veteran

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.

Neil made a face of supreme disgust, and I felt anger mushrooming inside of me. "Things like that—which people cling to as memories," he said, "it's those things that keep men from realizing their True Nature.