Quotes About Detachment

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

People will think what they want to," he said quietly. Never take too much notice of it.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her.

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.

I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot.

I don't want to go home," he said, as if he were telling the truth at last. I wondered in sudden detachment if I would at last find out what it was that he wanted from me.

Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

You know what I won't miss? People. Except for a handful. They're mostly awful, if you think about it.

Love isn't always about keeping someone. Sometimes it's about letting them go

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.

Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question.