Quotes About Detachment

When should we detach? When we can't stop thinking, talking about, or worrying about someone or something; when our emotions are churning and boiling; when we feel like we have to do something about someone because we can't stand it another minute; when we're hanging on by a thread, and it feels like that single thread is frayed; and when we believe we can no longer live with the problem we've been trying to live with. It is time to detach! You

Worrying and obsessing keep us so tangled in our heads we can't solve our problems. Whenever we become attached in these ways to someone or something, we become detached from ourselves.

I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody.

The message carried by all the pioneers of codependency recovery was the same: Not only can we lovingly detach from other people and take care of ourselves, it is our primary responsibility in life to do that.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Being with him was like being alone underwater -- everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

He hates you, but why should the falcon care about the sparrow's hate?

Era in balia di ogni soffio di vento, non possedeva nulla.

In every part of my life, too, I stood outside myself and watched; I saw myself functioning at the university, with my parents and brother and sister and my friends, but inwardly I felt no involvement.

there is no profit in feeling unless one learns to dominate it and impersonalise it. -

Popular Cynicism did not teach abstinence from the good things of this world, but only a certain indifference to them.

be indifferent to the goods that fortune has to bestow, and you will be emancipated from fear.

if you sympathise with everybody it comes to much the same as sympathising with none

Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I don't resent anything.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

A professional does not take success or failure personally.

A professional schools herself to stand apart from her performance, even as she gives herself to it heart and soul. The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

Act, Junah, but act without attachment, as the earth does. As I do. The rain falls, with no thought of watering the land. The clouds roll, not seeking to bring shade. They simply do. And we must too.