Quotes About Detachment

If, however, we look upon introversion (or, as I prefer to call it, neurotic detachment) as a means of evading conflicts that arise in close contact with others, the task is not to encourage more extraversion but to analyze the underlying conflicts. The goal of wholeheartedness can be approximated only after these have been resolved.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black

There are no coincidences in this world, Drustan, his father had said. You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern.

let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would

I don't hold on grudges, you know. They're like expired milk in the fridge.

Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most 'fluent' in the rituals, customs and traditions of a particular culture generally lack the detachment necessary to explain the 'grammar' of these practices in an intelligible manner. This is why we have anthropologists.

I'm pretty good at walking away from things—probably too good, in fact.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

The trick is in not minding.

As for his friends, he no longer had any. One after another they had all dropped away, as though friendship had become a burden which he had at first made every effort to shoulder and then had gradually realised that there was no need for and let go, and it had gone.

No muestres compasión por nadie, aunque la sientas. Haz favores sin afectaros. Si vieran emoción e interés en tu rostro cuando les das limosna se abalanzarían sobre ti y desnudo te dejarían. Como a los canes, a los hombres no debe dárseles el alimento sino arrojársele.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body--when he could forget that he had a body at all.

As the brain is detaching from the body, you think, How I will miss the horses.

entre más practiques el arte de no tomarte las cosas de manera personal, más natural te será hacerlo.

Need nothing and then see what happens.

Sometimes to follow in the footsteps of Jesus is to walk away from others or to let them walk away from us.

Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Practice focused apathy.