Quotes About Detachment

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.