Quotes About Detachment

Disconnection is disease.

You have got to abstract yourself so that you present a faceless picture to society.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

You're too straight, you just don't understand these guys' priorities. They don't expect any law or justice from the U.S. government. They don't even expect the government to be sane. The whole federal system just detached itself from them and floated off into deep space. They think of the government as something like bad weather . It's something you just endure.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.

Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

If something rude of any kind was said, let the winds take it.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detatched.

But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.

leave the other stuff to Life

Fuck it, I said. I'm reading the Funnies.

Leave me out of it I said, I came here to drink

Detachment from the finite self or attachment to the whole of things—we can state the phenomenon either positively or negatively. When it occurs, life is lifted above the possibility of frustration and above ennui—the third threat to joy—as well, for the cosmic drama is too spectacular to permit boredom in the face of such vivid identification.

We should witness all things non-reactively, especially our moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others.

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

She was never coming back, she no longer knew what knitting was, but wrapping up her scores of needles, her thousand patterns, a baby's half-finished yellow shawl, to give them all away to strangers was to banish her from the living.

The reason he wouldn't be drawn into political or even theological debate was that he was indifferent to other people's opinions and felt no urge to engage with or oppose them.

No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys.

I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.