Quotes About Detachment

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea.

The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die" (note 4). [Krishna says:]

This is the sage who always works for work's sake without caring for the results.

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

Work incessantly, but give up all attachment to work." Do

That is the test of everything. Renounce everything. It is the creative faculty that brings us into all this entanglement.

Such a man is the same whether his work succeeds or fails.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.

Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.

If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody

No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is "you?" The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?