Quotes About Attachment

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

I've been trying to remember this place," she said, almost plaintively. "I love it here, but the entire time I've felt like it was the one remembering me.

There are certain kinds of death that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

You prefer this place, you really do, don't you?

the seeming attempt to cast it away turned into an endless embrace.

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

Dependent people often allow themselves to be abused, subjugated, or deprived in order to maintain the dependence. They will do almost anything to keep the person with them.

The Dependence lifetrap can originate either in parents who are overprotective or parents who are underprotective.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

Yeah, well, love is a fickle thing, isn't it? One minute you have it, the next it's gone... or someone is trying to say you can't be together because you live in different zip codes.

We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

Someone once said, "Think about the things you'd most hate to lose (outside of your family), and you'll identify your idols." These are not only the things we treasure too much but what we've likely lost perspective on. We place this stuff on a pedestal that wasn't built for it. If we're not careful, TV can become this.

A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

Byron Katie says, "We don't attach to people or things, we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

All you have to do is make the choice to let go of everything you're so attached to that's not serving you and manifest the reality that you want. Life is an illusion created by your perception, and it can be changed the moment you choose to change it.

The other thing "I know" does is shut us off from receiving information from Universal Intelligence. When we're so convinced by, and attached to, what our brains are telling us, we lose out on receiving this much deeper knowledge. What we're basically doing is

The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.

Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Ty still owns a giant piece of my heart?

Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.

Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.