Quotes About Detachment

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

For the most part, I don't care what Dolph Ziggler is doing or that Seth Rollins worked out. I don't wanna watch a video of Cena power cleaning.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I have anyway washed my hands of cricket in India.

I kinda washed my hands of him. I'm not worried about Mike Jones. I don't wish no bad on him and I don't hate him, but I've got to move in my own direction.

I understand why we sleep. To slip the knot of the world.

Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don't care about the actual news, just that the radio is issuing a steadyish sound whose particulars they do not have to follow to understand what the radio is actually telling them: life is being lived. No need to be a part of it as long as you know it's streaming.

By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.

Who has no house now will not build him one.

The great sages of my Indian heritage had cultivated equanimity and detachment in the face of life's challenges, and I strove to emulate them by accepting what had happened to me with as much grace as I could muster.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

John states a very important principle: it is neither the presence nor the absence of things that indicate true detachment, but rather, the interior freedom of heart that puts its trust not in things—possessing or keeping what we already have, or longing for what we don't have—but rather in the Father's care.

Vasiyat Mir ne mujh ko yehi ki Ki sab kuchh hona tu, aashiq na hona.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude.

when there is no 'I' there is no karma.

Let come what comes, Let go what goes, See what remains.

He who has renounced (the 'I-thought') thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara

Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. (p. 236)

La soledad está en la mente de un hombre. Uno puede estar en el centro del mundo y sin embargo mantener una perfecta serenidad; una persona así siempre está en soledad. Otro puede estar en el bosque, y aún así, ser incapaz de controlar su mente. Entonces no se puede decir que esté en soledad. La soledad es un actitud del ánimo; un hombre apegado a las cosas de la vida no puede alcanzar la soledad, no importa dónde esté. Un hombre desapegado está siempre en soledad.