Quotes About Detachment

Twitter, Instagram - I don't do it at all.

I don't have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any of that stuff.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

Everyone has a right to say what they want, but what they have to say doesn't interest me.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

For one thing, she didn't like to be reminded of Max's scientific, detached sparkle. It

Of all forms of love, paranoia is the most ascetic, the love that demands least from its object.

The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

Estaba tan lejos de tus preocupaciones que te evadías no por el terror, sino por el fastidio.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

As part of the Six Element Practice, for example, we may repeat the phrase, "This is not me; this is not mine; I am not this." A verse such as this is, as it were, dropped into the mind.

Non-possession" does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

You may feel love and compassion for everyone, but that does not mean you can continue to be in environments or with people who are hostile or toxic. You may need to leave.

The ultimate detachment includes detachment even from the ideal of detachment. This is the kind of thing that can make you lose your mind … and come to your senses. The

When we learn to live in the present we are no longer chained to the past. We say to each other: "I am a being who notices. I have a particular psychological history but it doesn't have to dictate the rest of my life. I can choose how I live, rather than just react from my past the rest of my life." If people don't like that, we saym "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

No one bothered to glance up at us, as though they'd weighed the effort of sliding their eyes in our direction against the possible benefits and decided, hey, it isn't worth it. The