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Quotes About Attachment

The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.
~ Thubten Chodron
When Buddha spoke about suffering, he meant that we have unsatisfactory experiences. Even the happiness we have does not last forever, and that situation is unsatisfactory. The causes of our problems lie not in the external environment and those inhabiting it, but in our own mind. The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.
~ Thubten Chodron
El budismo nos guía hacia la felicidad suprema, la cual proviene de la transformación de nuestra mente. Buda observó que cuando estamos apegados a los objetos de los sentidos, nos sentimos finalmente desdichados.
~ Thubten Chodron
El apego es una actitud que sobrestima las cualidades de un objeto o una persona y después se aferra a ella. En otras palabras, proyectamos sobre las personas y los objetos cualidades que no poseen, o exageramos las que poseen. El apego es una visión poco realista y por ello nos causa confusión.
~ Thubten Chodron
Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.
~ Thubten Chodron
By seeing this food as medicine, I will consume it without attachment or complaint, Not to increase my arrogance, strength, or good looks, But solely to sustain my life.
~ Thubten Chodron
Las causas de nuestros problemas residen, no en el entorno exterior y quienes lo habitan, sino en nuestra propia mente. Las actitudes perturbadoras y las emociones negativas, como el apego excesivo, la ira y la ignorancia, son el verdadero origen de nuestra infelicidad.
~ Thubten Chodron
When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Then, without any attachment to your possessions of this life, generate a fearless attitude with regard to your future life.
~ Thupten Jinpa
I am" is but a deception; "I want" is but an appeasement [of ego]; "The other" is but an enemy's word; "I do not want" is a hindrance. 39 "Self and others" are terms of division; "Attachment and aversion" words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma.
~ Thupten Jinpa
Then he met Eva, and she breathed the same air. She stuck to his bones, imprinted herself on his brain—and thoroughly rearranged his world, in the best way.
~ Tia Williams
Shane was the memory she couldn't escape. The bridge she'd never burn. The
~ Tia Williams
Science can now illuminate why approaches like psychodrama, 12-step programs, group therapy, journaling, bodywork, yoga, exercise, and massage work; why one-to-one therapy can help us learn a new style of attachment; why changing the way we live and the nature of our relationships can change the way we think and feel, and vice versa; and why quick fixes don't work but why a new design for living does.
~ Tian Dayton
I feel like we grew in the same womb or something. Like we've been connected from the beginning by blood and veins. Siamese soul lovers, if there could ever be such a thing.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we'd be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Gifted children often struggle to make attachments
~ Tilly Bagshawe
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.
~ Tim Burton
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.
~ Tim Burton
they are all spaces which people have made meaningful. They are all spaces people are attached to in one way or another. This is the most straightforward and common definition of place – a meaningful location.
~ Tim Cresswell
Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.
~ Tim Freke
You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.
~ George Karl
No question, I love being a Net.
~ Brook Lopez
Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.
~ Aisling Bea
I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable.
~ Jyoti Amge