Quotes About Attachment

El sentimiento es deseo y el deseo es amor.

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.

You can't revisit a place where you were happy, as you can't re-love someone you've loved and left" ~from "Package Tour

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

could not bear to think that they might love another woman . . . I dare not let them go to the embraces of anyone else . . .

She both hated and loved him.

people are more likely to keep what they start with than to trade it, even when the initial allocations were done at random.

specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

Once I have a mug, I don't want to give it up. But if I don't have one, I don't feel an urgent need to buy one. What this means is that people do not assign specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

All things are transient and subject to decay. To become attached to things leads to suffering. One can not truly say this belongs to me, or this is what I truly am. The answer to all things cannot be found in the outer world of things or self-concepts.

The Gnostic Christ (and the historical Jesus), like the Buddha, like Krishna, like Lao Tzu, taught that all material things are impermanent—whether they be riches, or one's own body. Attachment to that which is impermanent causes suffering. Give up attachment and suffering ceases.

Never become used to anything you love. It blunts the edge of appreciation.

Even as an infant, he hated being held. Every hug is a small, soft jail.

The great paradox of existence may be that only the dead certainty of losing everything makes anything at all worth keeping.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We have to let go of the passing names by which we have tried to name ourselves and become the "naked self before the naked God." That will always feel like dying, because we are so attached to our passing names and identities. Your bare, undecorated self is already and forever the beloved child of God. When you can rest there, you will begin to share in the universal Christ consciousness, the very "mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16).

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

What the ego (the False Self) hates and fears more than anything else is change. It will think up a thousand other things to be concerned about or be moralistic about—anything rather than giving up "who I think I am" and "who I need to be to look good.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling or changing or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo, even when it is not working. It attaches to past and present, and fears the future.