Quotes About Attachment

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Our feelings are energy, so when you find the energy you want you can attach it to a desire.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.