Quotes About Attachment

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Rabbit wipes her chin and mouth with his handkerchief and, for weeks afterward, when all is lost, will take out this handkerchief and bury his nose in it, in its scarcely detectable smell of distant ocean.

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being "right.

That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.

When we identify ourselves with a permanent, solid "self," it is a delusion of consciousness, a form of self-imprisonment, according to Einstein. Elsewhere he wrote that "the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, … W. B. YEATS, "Sailing to Byzantium

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

I love you more than too much.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony