Quotes About Attachment

It's awful, isn't it? This love business gets hold of you and you can't do anything about it.

Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.

But I," she thought, "am not a whole person. I belong not to myself, but to something outside of me.

Lebih mudah membenci seseorang yang Anda cintai daripada tidak mengacuhkan orang yang Anda cintai.

Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belonged together, and I had looked after him,

My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

I want you so badly. It certainly is a new sensation for me. I never pined for anybody before in my life. In every book I read, I seem to find a parallel to you and men

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

it was only then that I understood how longing for a place can take you over so that you can do nothing except return, as I did, return and pick at the city, scraping together bits of the place you once knew. But what do you do if you can never return?

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

This is My House but this is not Me. What is Mine cannot be Me. Then how can my Body be Me? It is Mine, but it is not Me.

Unless you Renounce, you can't see the Divine...but the moment you Experience the Divine, you don't need to Renounce.

You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.

Any place you don't want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.

If you see things with real insight, then there is no stickiness in your relationship to them. They come, pleasant and unpleasant, you see them and there is no attachment, They come and they pass. Even if the worst kinds of defilement come up, such as greed or anger, there enough wisdom to see their impermanent nature and allow them to fade away. If you react to them, by liking or disliking, that is not wisdom. You're only creating more suffering for yourself.

Love and hate are both suffering, because of desire. Wanting is suffering, wanting not to have is suffering. Even if you get what you want, it's still suffering because once you've got it, you then live in the fear of losing it. How are you going to live happily with fear?

The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold onto things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song then let go. If you know nature, you'll know Dhamma. If you know Dhamma, you'll know nature.

The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.

So what does one do if one's refuge is in another person? or in an institution? or in a way of thinking? or in family life? or in a political view? or in anything which is subject to change, to birth and death?

Obi?no patnju poistove?ujemo sa ose?anjem, a ose?anje nije patnja. Poistove?ivanje sa željom jeste patnja. Želja ne izaziva patnju; uzrok patnje je poistove?ivanje sa željom. O ovoj konstataciji treba razmisliti i analizirati je u kontekstu sopstevnog iskustva.

Even after a work-of-art tattoo was located, the problems were just beginning. The next obstacle in the collector's path was obtaining a contract for posthumous conveyance of the tattoo. The potential difficulty of this cannot be overemphasized, for people tend to be passionately attached to their own skins, even after death.

Affection: Tout ce qui, dans nos pensées, dans nos projets, dans nos résolutions est marqué d'un degré quelconque d'amour ou de haine, de joie ou de tristesse.

Qué afortunado soy de tener algo de lo que cuesta tanto despedirse», Winnie the Pooh

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.