Quotes About Detachment

It is useless to cry over a thing which is not belong to you....

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn't know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

I wish not to tell you how I feel, I choose silence so that you leave, Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it's purpose in your life.

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.

If it bothers you to see me when then stop looking.

Free is a man who has no desires.

If you love something, let it go…

I choose not to waste my energy hating someone and I recognise that their negativity drags me down, so I walk away from them.

If you follow someone who decides to leave your life, you are walking away from yourself.

Of all the things you said I couldn't doforgetting you has been the easiest...

ÎncercaÈ›i s? nu v? gândiÈ›i la voi. S? v? transformaÈ›i viaÈ›a în potire în care s? se adune alt? via??, mai plin?, mai uman?. Când aveÈ›i de f?cut un lucru, gândiÈ›i-v? la ceea ce trebuie f?cut, nu la cine îl face. IgnoraÈ›i cu furie fructul actelor voastre. S? nu v? intereseze dac? un lucru e apreciat, e recompensat, e premiat. TreceÈ›i peste el îndat? ce l-aÈ›i f?cut.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

Don't get too attached to anything.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion

Learn to detach.

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. - Buddhists say

I envy them being able to go to the health club, or go for a swim. Or dance. Mostly for dancing. But envy comes to me, I feel it, and then I let it go. Remember what I said about detachment? Let it go. Tell yourself, 'That's envy, I'm going to separate from it now.' And walk away.

If you hold back on the emotions — if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them — you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.