Quotes About Detachment

I was stunned at how easily things went on without me

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

Holding on to things will only break your heart

But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

If you hold back on the emotions--you can never get being detached, you're too busy being afraid. 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. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. You let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely.

Holding on to things will only break your heart.

Holding on things will only break your heart

that holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments

So Erica felt better in a place like this, separated from the rest of us, where people could live in their minds without feeling bad about it.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

But we could not live in this world if we were not able, from time to time, to get away from it.

The philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita holds that we don't actually own anything – that our nation, cars, homes, and our families ultimately belong to God. Even our own senses don't belong to us, according to the Gita.

Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years ago he began looking very downcast and melancholy, and I often warned him, despite my own want of sense, that a man who sees too far into life and thinks about things too deeply becomes too detached from them and to be attractive and only loses whatever luster he may have had, but he seemed merely to find my opinion shallow.

You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…

Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

the recapitulation, which consisted of a systematic scrutiny of one's life, segment by segment, an examination made not in the light of criticism or finding flaw, but in the light of an effort to understand one's life, and to change its course. Don Juan's claim was that once any practitioner has viewed his life in the detached manner that the recapitulation requires, there's no way to go back to the same life.

Ljutiš li se na mene, don Huane?, upitah ga kada se vratio. Izgledao je iznena?en mojim pitanjem. Ne! Nikada se ni na koga ne ljutim. Niko na ovom svetu ne može da u?ini ništa toliko zna?ajno da bih se ja naljutio. Ljutiš se na ljude onda kada misliš da su njihovi postupci važni. Ja tako više ne mislim.

As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.

9. Are you comfortable thinking about your life in impersonal terms?

Gutterman waved his hand, carelessly dismissing the insult. You can't hurt my feelings, Miss Drew. I abandoned them years ago.

She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.

He was too detached from the family to start trying in one evening to check himself into a place where there was currently no vacancy.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

I don't like having feelings, Eric said coldly, and he left.