Quotes About Attachment

We are all in the end those rhesus monkeys who cling to the soft plush mother for comfort, ignoring the food on the wire monkey until we starve. Other people can hurt us more than our bodies can.

Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel.

What if you are the awareness, and you were just pretending to be attached to a particular body-mind for the experience it provides consciousness?

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

Lo que poseo parece ser mío, pero soy poseído siempre por aquello que tengo.

The worst thing,' Mena said, 'is to have to leave your hometown where everyone, even the stones, know who you are. It must be heartbreaking to leave them all behind and head off down the road. The bird that's most blessed has a home for his nest.

But do you know, you can love a city like a woman? My old father had lived in Delhi all his life. He died of a broken heart.

Non sono mai stato tanto attaccato alla vita

What keeps a person passive and compliant," he explained, "is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don't ultimately matter—money, career, physical safety—you can overcome that fear.

There are many kinds of love, I think. There's passionate love, and there's dutiful love, though often we don't realize that really they're just different sides of the same coin." He pulled up his collar. "And then there's another kind of love. The kind we can only show by setting someone free.

Greater ability to trust and connect with other people. Others and the world are viewed as safe and predictable, consistent with early experiences with the primary caregiver(s) (Snyder and Lopez 2007). A greater likelihood of viewing God as loving (Granqvist et al. 2007).

Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains

any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

Years of research and study show that a child was designed to be raised and educated at home because the most important element in a child's development towards maturity is his attachment to those who are responsible for him (a.k.a. parents)

Aukl?jimo paslaptis - ne tai, k? t?vai daro, o tai, k? jie reiškia savo vaikui.

less mature a person is, the more he will rely on this basic mode of attaching. Peer-oriented kids like Cynthia are preoccupied with being together, occupying the same space, hanging out, and staying in touch. When attachment is this primitive, the talking can be gibberish and nonsense. "My

Only "those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves," said Smith, "have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.

She lived to be twenty years old, and when she died I felt as if I had lost a child.