Quotes About Non-attachment

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)

I don't collect anything.

You cannot become a Buddha unless you kill the Buddha which is dualistically conceived as an object.