Quotes About Attachment

You don't give up the intention; and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

Something within her, calm and apparently rational, was thinking that it was impossible for her to continue living without him, that she needed him as she needed air. She did not believe that she could bear the loneliness of being in this world without him.

I can't do this." She opened her eyes. "I can't do this, Beau." "Why not?" "This can't . . . go anywhere. I'll be leaving soon and—" "So don't. Don't go." She pushed away, and his arms fell. "I have to. It won't be safe here forever.

I'm not ready for you to go." His voice was thick and smoky.

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.

I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Have you ever taken yourself a bit too seriously, thinking that who you are is actually defined by what you look like, how much talent you have (or don't have), how well known you are (or aren't), or how much money you have (or don't have)? Those are all "garments and labels" you wear during the course of your stay here on this planet, but it's not who you are. At the end of the day, when it's all said and done, you will turn all of that back in just like a car you had on lease.

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive.

So paradox es klingen mag, hält sich an bestimmte Dinge kann man schwächer, während das Loslassen der Dinge k

Your body is only a garment chosen and worn by your Soul. Have no doubts, but some day your Soul will discard it, and exchange it for a new garment, just like you change your shirts, my friend. Don't fall in love with that temporary garment, and get acquainted with its owner, your Soul.

Long story short, I have always been fascinated by how we absolutely need to be in a relationship. I mean, it consumes us, that need, that terrible need to be loved, to be with someone.

The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

I'm afraid I can't let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that's about it.

Don't you all have somewhere else to be? It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay.

human desires are the main cause of suffering

I have always loved you.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.