Quotes About Attachment

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

Así como el vínculo inicial de apego permitía el desarrollo del niño, es en última instancia el nuevo vínculo de apego con el terapeuta el que propicia el cambio en el paciente. Parafraseando a Bowlby (1988),

first, that co-created relationships of attachment are the key context for development; second, that preverbal experience makes up the core of the developing self; and third, that the stance of the self toward experience predicts attachment security better than the facts of personal history themselves.

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

grief is optional in this lifetime. Yes, it's true. You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer.

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.