Quotes About Attachment

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider's web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual "truth."

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

Addiction by any other name is love.

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

LEARN THIS TRUTH.... Love is a powerful feeling but it fade away gradually when not given back in return...

In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew him, was just about the only pet I've ever really loved.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

To have one's helplessness and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dependency taken advantage of by the person one loves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soon produces an interlinking of love and hate. Because anger toward the loved person cannot be expressed for fear of losing that person Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ambivalence, the interlinking of love and hate, remains an important characteristic of later object relationships. Many

A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.

But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt! Daphne said. Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.

I don't care what is written, Meyer Landsman says. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass to the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's another way of saying it was all I had.

everything, in fact, recalled him to me, as though he'd left the whole world to me in his will.

What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?