Quotes About Attachment

I moved to Queens from New Jersey in 2004 and have continued to stick with New York to such a degree that when people ask me to explain it, I'm sometimes unable to provide an answer.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

The root of suffering is attachment

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

the common saying has it, we think that man "lives to eat" and not "eats to live". We are continually making this mistake; we are regarding nature as ourselves and are becoming attached to it; and as soon as this attachment comes, there is the deep impression on the soul, which binds us down and makes us work not from freedom but like slaves.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A

He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.