Quotes About Attachment

Breathe. Slow. Observe. Break the link between sensation and reaction. Breathe into the gap between them. Blind reaction is attachment. Blind reaction is slavery. Freedom exists in the gap. Choice exists in the gap.

Breathe. Slow. Observe. Break the link between sensation and reaction. Breathe into the gap between them. Blind reaction is attachment. Blind reaction is slavery. Freedom exists in the gap. Choice exists in the gap. I exist in the gap. Let go of attachment to my fear, he told himself. Let go of attachment to myself. Let go of attachment to my life. That's the secret to living.

Breathe. Slow. Observe. Break the link between sensation and reaction. Breathe into the gap between them. Blind reaction is attachment. Blind reaction is slavery. Freedom exists in the gap. Choice exists in the gap. I exist in the gap.

We always hurt what we love most

Well, you can't have just some of me, Jai," I told her. "You appreciate the part of me that didn't get angry because two 'things' we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don't repair things if they still do what they're supposed to do. The cars still work. Let's just drive 'em.

Whatever you possess possesses you in return.

The Self says 'I AM'–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means 'I AM'), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says 'I am this' or 'I am that,' thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)

yoga is breaking the bond with suffering

When longing disappears, love disappears.

47. Attached By Each Other Float into the air of idea and disappear into the thin wind of thought. Where then is body that comes from soil and flesh that belongs with flesh? Touch earth. Smell its fragrance. Taste its flavours. Man and woman are attached by each other to earth.

When you're concentrating on anything that's disruptive in your life, you really don't love anybody.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

You don't have to work at what you are. Part of what you are is what you think you are, but what you think you are is not all of what you are. It is just an aspect of what you are. Being buddha means being unattached to your thoughts about what you are. If you think you are a worthy person or an unworthy person, not grasping those thoughts is buddha.

They would drift away like people did if there was nothing to tie them down or hold them steady.

I'll never say good bye to TV. I belong there.

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.

I can tell you I love California - and no more.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

Canada will always be my home.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.