Quotes About Detachment

Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don't give a shit.

Od onog ondašnjeg ?ovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono što je bitno, ali ja uop?e više nisam taj ?ovjek. Mogao bih pri?ati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osu?ivati a da uop?e ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene.

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

there are people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Sometimes, things just aren't meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how bad you want it, you got to let it go. True.. Letting go.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

You cannot receive until you learn to release.

Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.

I'm not insincere. I just don't care, that's all.

Never cared for what they say Never cared for games they play Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know

In "The Ballad of Johnny Burma," Miller hollers, "I said my mother's dead, well I don't care about it / I say my father's dead, I don't care about it." At the time both his parents were very much alive. "It was more like cutting loose from all that stuff—they're all dead and now I'm free to be me," Miller says.

He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much--indeed to revolve around him--could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.

I wasn't unkind to him. I just didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to anybody, and I didn't want anybody talking to me. That was the plan.

Personally I would never help mankind. -John Hammond

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.